Commission activities include:

• Developing a manual of standard methods for the global geochemical baselines and regional geochemical projects

• Developing partnerships with countries conducting broad-scale geochemical mapping studies

• Providing consultation and training in the form of workshops and short courses to build the capacity for conducting geochemical mapping programmes in countries around the world

• Organising periodic international symposia and conferences to foster communication among the geochemical mapping community

• Developing standards for global-scale sampling in different morpho-climatic terrains

• Developing criteria for certifying those projects that are acceptable for inclusion in a global geochemical database

• Acting as a repository for data collected by projects meeting the standards of harmonisation

• Preparing complete metadata for the various certified projects

• Preparing a global geochemical database and atlas