CSIRO's new resilience goals for Australia
CSIRO OUTLINES MISSIONS WORTH $100 MILLION:
* Increase resilience and preparedness for pandemics
* Mitigate impact of natural disasters like drought, bushfires and floods
* Create hydrogen industry for clean energy exports
* Accelerate to agile manufacturing for higher revenue and sovereign supply
* Overcome growing resistance to antibiotics
* Create national climate platform
* Help farmers overcome drought, mitigate climate impacts, increase yield and profitability
* Use technology to transition to net zero emissions without hurting economy
* Monitor quality of water resources from space
* Create new industries that transform raw minerals into higher-value products like critical energy metals
* End plastic waste by reinventing the way it is made, processed and recycled
* Double number of small and medium businesses benefiting from Australian science