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FOI 2025/41

  • Date of release: 15 July 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Certain materials produced by CSIRO under its agreement with The Metals Company (between 1 April 2023 and 31 May 2025), correspondence with The Metals Company (between 1 April 2025 and 31 May 2025), correspondence with consortium partners (between 1 April 2023 and 31 May 2025) and certain materials produced for the International Seabed Authority (between 1 July 2022 and 31 May 2025). 
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47C, s47E(d), s47F

FOI 2025/52

  • Date of release: 22 September 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Documents related to work CSIRO has completed as part of a consortium engaged by Canada-based deep-sea mining company The Metals Company (including any related subsidiaries, such as Nauru Ocean Resources or NORI).
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47E(c), s47F

FOI 2025/54

  • Date of release: 22 August 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request:  Any documents—up to a maximum of five (5)—that substantiate the following claim published on CSIRO website:
    “Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb some of this re-radiated heat, which increases the temperature of the Earth's surface, ocean and atmosphere.””
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • Full Release 

FOI 2025/55

  • Date of release: 20 August 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request:  Documents, correspondence, datasets, input assumptions, constraints, and code comprising the modelling that underpins the variable renewable integration costs in the 2024-25 GenCost report, as referenced on page 23 of the report.
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47(1)(c) 

FOI 2025/62

  • Date of release: 29 September 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request:  The minutes, slides and any recordings from the technical workshop on LCOE measures that adjust for each technology’s cost of achieving reliable supply
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47F

FOI 2025/63

  • Date of release: 29 September 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: The letters sent formally inviting collaborating organisations to join the project advisory group and the minutes from project advisory group meetings regarding GenCost reports.
  • Documents available on request  - foi@csiro.au
  • s22, s47F

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Freedom of Information logo - surrounded by red and blue circles

FOI 2025/41

  • Date of release: 15 July 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Certain materials produced by CSIRO under its agreement with The Metals Company (between 1 April 2023 and 31 May 2025), correspondence with The Metals Company (between 1 April 2025 and 31 May 2025), correspondence with consortium partners (between 1 April 2023 and 31 May 2025) and certain materials produced for the International Seabed Authority (between 1 July 2022 and 31 May 2025). 
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47C, s47E(d), s47F

FOI 2025/52

  • Date of release: 22 September 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: Documents related to work CSIRO has completed as part of a consortium engaged by Canada-based deep-sea mining company The Metals Company (including any related subsidiaries, such as Nauru Ocean Resources or NORI).
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47E(c), s47F

FOI 2025/54

  • Date of release: 22 August 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request:  Any documents—up to a maximum of five (5)—that substantiate the following claim published on CSIRO website:
    “Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb some of this re-radiated heat, which increases the temperature of the Earth's surface, ocean and atmosphere.””
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • Full Release 

FOI 2025/55

  • Date of release: 20 August 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request:  Documents, correspondence, datasets, input assumptions, constraints, and code comprising the modelling that underpins the variable renewable integration costs in the 2024-25 GenCost report, as referenced on page 23 of the report.
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47(1)(c) 

FOI 2025/62

  • Date of release: 29 September 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request:  The minutes, slides and any recordings from the technical workshop on LCOE measures that adjust for each technology’s cost of achieving reliable supply
  • Documents available on request - foi@csiro.au
  • s47F

FOI 2025/63

  • Date of release: 29 September 2025
  • Summary of FOI Request: The letters sent formally inviting collaborating organisations to join the project advisory group and the minutes from project advisory group meetings regarding GenCost reports.
  • Documents available on request  - foi@csiro.au
  • s22, s47F