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Be loud, listen, learn and make change

March 31, 2025

Written by Grace Kirkby and Jody Bruce, Towards Net Zero mission, CSIRO. Originally published in Impact Leadership Magazine, March 2025. […]

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Navigating Australia’s Energy Future: Building climate positive value chains

March 19, 2025

At ImpactX 2025, a panel of industry leaders from JLL, Brambles, Beyond Zero Emissions and CSIRO tried to tackle the impossible: predicting Australia’s energy future. We know from physicist Niels Bohr, ‘Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.’

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Opportunities and Priorities for a Low Carbon Liquid Fuel Industry in Australia

March 4, 2025

Australia can play a key role, as both a source of feedstocks and as a LCLF producer, while delivering benefits to our regions, economy and ecosystems.

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Fuelling Take-off

October 18, 2024

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is key to lowering the emissions footprint of the airline industry – the future of flying depends on it.

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Innovation: a vital part of Australia’s contribution to global decarbonisation

September 12, 2024

“We need to see the boundaries of the innovation system and our problem definition more expansively”

Convening for Net Zero: Aligning Innovation, Industry, and Society

September 5, 2024

Getting to net zero is critical, and Australia can get there in a way that builds prosperity and inclusivity.

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Climate equity, jobs and inaction: young Australian perspectives on climate change and the transition.

September 3, 2024

We spoke to three young people embedded in different communities around Australia about how we can embedded their voices when it comes to net zero emissions.

Dr Courtney Regan presents at CSIRO's Towards Net Zero Forum.

Reducing Australia’s largest source of methane emissions

July 31, 2024

Understanding the applicability and cost of mitigation technologies across Australia’s diverse production systems.

Stacking solutions to help the iron ore industry reach net zero.

July 29, 2024

Dr Kwaku Owusu is exploring stacking multiple innovations into new cost-effective value chains to ensure the Australian steel industry meets net zero goals.

Dr Michelle Miller speaks at CSIRO's Towards Net Zero Forum.

Building agency, capacity and capability across Australia for transitions

July 25, 2024

How might we build collaboration with diverse stakeholders and communities – including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples – across disciplines and with industry, science, technology, and all government levels?

Dr Humair Nadeem presents at CSIRO's Towards Net Zero Forum

All the way to net zero: Ingredients for decarbonising iron ore

July 24, 2024

Dr Humair Nadeem on the need for a systems approach to the development of a more sustainable iron ore to green steel supply chain in Australia.

Linking Australian homes to the net zero challenge

July 22, 2024

Helping households contribute to decarbonisation efforts.

From baboons to building a 21st century innovation system.

July 19, 2024

Channelling collective intelligence, innovation, and cooperation to build a 21st century innovation system and a sustainable future. By Dr Philippa Hammond.

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The science of scaling sustainability impact

July 17, 2024

Why are so many sustainability-oriented technologies and solutions facing limited adoption?   Dr Zelalem Moti wants to understand why and how we can change this problem.  

Towards Net Zero Forum

June 17, 2024

We hosted the Towards Net Zero Forum on 12 and 13 June at the State Library of Victoria.

Decarbonising Australia’s hard-to-abate sectors

June 7, 2024

By focusing on three industry value chains; iron ore to steel, sustainable aviation fuel and agriculture the mission is accelerating decarbonisation in these sectors and use learnings to identify approaches for other hard-to-abate sectors.

Net zero: What’s the opportunity and for who?

April 24, 2024

Dr Michael Battaglia speaks on building national capability to support a just and equitable transition. ImpactX Summit, Sydney 22 April […]

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CSIRO and Swinburne invest in green steel and mineral processing to help industry get to net zero

February 20, 2024

The new partnership will tackle global decarbonisation with innovative green steel and mineral processing research and development. Australia’s commitment to […]

Industrial Regions Network

October 27, 2023

We are creating a two-way learning network to connect our regions on the ground, so they can lean into the ecosystem and learn from other regions, experts, industries, and communities.

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Sequestration Cost Reduction Workshops Report

October 10, 2023

New report for the Climate Change Authority and Clean Energy Regulator explores expert workshops on potential for sequestration cost reduction.

SA ZERO: Accelerating South Australia’s Net Zero Journey

August 28, 2023

The Towards Net Zero Mission is a founding member of SA ZERO and we are excited to collaborate in new ways with some of South Australia’s most influential organisations to drive progress, sustainable innovation, and collaborative action to accelerate SA’s journey to Net Zero.

CSIRO and Boeing SAF Roadmap: Charting the flight path to sustainable skies 

August 10, 2023

The roadmap is part of the critical work the Mission is undertaking to support Australia’s hardest to abate sectors to halve their emissions by 2035, and forms part of our Towards Net Zero Mission

Pyrochar and CSIRO collaborate to decarbonise steelmaking

August 4, 2023

The technology produces a metallurgical grade of biochar that is a net-zero emissions fuel source and replacement for coal in the steelmaking process.

Climate Change Authority releases insights into carbon sequestration

April 19, 2023

It summarises the Authority’s policy insights that follow from the CSIRO’s technical report ‘Australia’s Carbon Sequestration Potential’.

FutureFeed wins BloombergNEF Pioneers

April 17, 2023

FutureFeed uses a seaweed called Asparagopsis as a livestock ingredient which significantly reduces methane emissions from cattle.

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NSF Global Centers

April 14, 2023

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) Global Centers Program is an ambitious new initiative to fund international, interdisciplinary collaborative research […]

Sustainable fuel: Australian scientists working to fix aviation’s problems

March 1, 2023

Towards Net Zero interview in the Australian Financial Review

Archive: CSIRO is taking on Australia’s toughest research challenges

November 10, 2022

“Australia’s goal to reach net zero is, in many ways, a personal one. It will be easier for some; harder […]

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Archive: We’re officially launched!

November 2, 2022

On 11 October 2022 CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, formally launched a new research mission to help Australia’s regions and […]

Archive: The next frontier for reaching net zero: decarbonising industry

November 1, 2022

Read the speech delivered by CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall to launch CSIRO’s Towards Net Zero mission at the […]

Archive: Australian CEOs unite for “Roadmap to 2030 Shifting to a Low Carbon Future”

April 14, 2022

A roadmap to achieve significant emissions reductions by the critical global milestone of 2030 has been released today by the […]

Archive: Towards Net Zero COP26 showcase

April 14, 2022

We presented a digital event in the Australia Pavillion at COP26 Glasgow. Reaching net zero means a fundamental reimagining of […]