Some of the key issues facing the industry that have already been identified and that need to be addressed include:

• Establishing and maintaining effective commercial collaboration in the remediation industry in Australia to capture national and international market opportunities.
  
  
• Identifying and disseminating business opportunities in Australia, nationally, and internationally.
  
  
• Fostering an integrated environmental business development culture.
  
  
• Providing support, direction and information to those active and those seeking to become active in the remediation industry.
  
  
• Providing practical support to education, research, and development of new and innovative environment-related practices and technologies.
  
  
• Providing linkages to governments, trade groups, research groups, and export associations both local and external to Australia.
  
  
• Promoting Australian remediation capability, technology, and services.
  
  
• Identifying the challenges facing organisations involved in the practice of remediating and preventing contamination.
  
  
• Identifying technology gaps, prioritising them and then developing a process to ensure the most important ones impacting on the industry are addressed.
  
  
• Facilitating the formation of specialist groups to address impediments where suitable parties do not already exist.
  
  
• Establishing strong linkages with government agencies to facilitate industry involvement in policy development.
  
  
• Providing a broad-based community of expertise for dialogue with agencies involved in regulation and policy development.
  
  
• Supporting the diffusion of technology, knowledge and best practice in remediation of contamination both nationally and internationally.
  
  
• Identifying gaps in industry training and working with the CRC and other providers to fill these gaps.
  
  
• Providing a two-way conduit linking CRC CARE and the wider community of organisations involved in remediation and prevention of contamination.
  
  
• Facilitating the establishment of an effective accreditation/certification framework that will ensure the maintenance of standards within the assessment and remediation industry.