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On 23 May 2006 Mr Ian Cohen asked the Treasurer, representing the Minister for Planning, a question without notice regarding the Building Sustainability Index. The Minister for Planning provided the following response:
The Government recently announced its commitment to increase the BASIX energy targets from 1 July 2006. The newly announced targets include regional variations allowing for climatic constraints and variations for building types and ensure that on average BASIX will deliver an overall reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 36% for new homes.
From 1 October 2006 alterations and additions of a certain value to existing homes will also be required to comply with BASIX.
Under the new target BASIX will save 287 billion litres of water and more than 8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide being emitted to the atmosphere over the next decade.