Inquiry into the Safe Climate (Energy Efficient Non-Residential Buildings Scheme) Bill 2009
Information about the Inquiry
On 17 September 2009 the Senate referred the Safe Climate (Energy Efficient Non-Residential Buildings Scheme) Bill 2009 for inquiry and report.
The bill introduces a building energy efficiency trading scheme. The scheme will set an emissions intensity baseline, which will decline over time, for each type of commercial building. Property owners that emit above the baseline will be required to buy emissions intensity certificates from those that emit below the baseline. In this way, the bill offers an incentive for the commercial building sector to improve the energy efficiency of their buildings.
Submissions should be received by 23 October 2009. The reporting date is 10 March 2010. On 10 March 2010,the Senate granted an extension of time for reporting until 17 March 2010.
The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted online or sent by email to economics.sen@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.
Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:
Department of the Senate
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3540 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5719 or by email to economics.sen@aph.gov.au.
Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to Parliament House TTY number 02 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools at http://access.adobe.com/ for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. If you require any special arrangements to enable you to participate in the Committee's inquiry, please contact the Committee Secretariat.
Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.
For further information, contact: Department of the Senate
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia