A Western Australian program to cut energy use in Government agencies by 12% achieved only a 0.1% reduction, resulting in about $50 million of wasted energy expenditure, the state's Auditor-General has found.
Investa Property Group has reduced the emissions and water intensity of its managed office portfolio for the eighth consecutive year, says the company's 2009 Sustainability Report.
The troubled rollout of some of the Rudd Government's climate change programs underlines the benefits of delivery through an external entity like the Carbon Trust, its chairman, Robert Hill said today.
The Property Council today warned a Senate inquiry that a bill requiring disclosure of office building energy performance would create a 'massive' logjam of buildings to be rated, while Lend Lease and green building advocate Che Wall described the bill as a failure.