Efficient Building Scheme 2010

This video summarises the case for an Efficient Building Scheme to drive deep, fast, low-cost greenhouse gas
emissions cuts in non-residential buildings, by stimulating energy efficiency improvements in all offices, public
buildings, hospitals, hotels, schools and campuses, shopping centres, stores and industrial buildings.

An Efficient Building Scheme is a cap and trade emissions trading scheme for non-residential buildings that works
by providing an incentive to maximise energy efficiency improvements in buildings when they come up for re-lease
or earlier, balanced by penalties for inaction on inefficient buildings.

An Efficient Building Scheme could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in our cities by 50% before 2020 using
existing technology and knowledge, as well as stimulating jobs growth and innovation, and health and productivity
benefits. By reducing demand, it would also defer or reduce investment in energy infrastructure.

An Efficient Building Scheme could operate as a complementary measure to an Emissions Trading Scheme, but it could also operate independently.

This solution has been identified by Lend Lease, WSP Lincolne Scott and Advanced Environmental, with legal
advice from Freehills, in response to the failure of existing measures to unlock the potential greenhouse gas savings
from significantly increasing the efficiency of non-residential buildings.

For more information visit: www.lendlease.com/sustainability

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