Improved building energy efficiency has been shown to contribute substantially to global greenhouse gas abatement objectives. Realisation of these benefits depends on the deployment of appropriate policy instruments. Building energy codes have the potential to deliver economic, environmental, societal and other strategic benefits. Australia’s high per capita greenhouse emissions and rates of building construction provide a national case study in climate policy development. Insights into reform of Australia’s National Construction Code also provide evidence-based analysis of the efficacy of market-based energy efficiency measures, demonstrating that building energy codes are a cost-effective greenhouse emission reduction instrument and also that market failures inhibit the effectiveness of conventional economic instruments in reducing building sector greenhouse emissions. Although building energy codes do provide a potentially transformative intervention in the property market, their effectiveness is bedevilled by problems with enforcement and stakeholder behaviour in service. Addressing these impediments calls for targeted policy packages to bridge identified gaps between presumptive building performance objectives and outcomes actually observed in practice.

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建筑法规对建筑环境应对气候变化政策的潜在贡献

事实证明，提高建筑物的能源效率可为全球温室气体减排目标做出重大贡献。这些好处的实现取决于适当政策工具的部署。建筑节能法规具有带来经济，环境，社会和其他战略利益的潜力。澳大利亚高人均温室气体排放量和房屋建造率为气候政策制定提供了国家案例研究。对《澳大利亚国家建筑规范》改革的见解还提供了基于证据的对基于市场的能效措施效力的分析，证明建筑能源法规是一种具有成本效益的温室气体减排工具，并且市场失灵也阻碍了传统经济手段在减少建筑部门温室气体排放方面的有效性。尽管建筑节能法规确实为房地产市场提供了潜在的变革性干预措施，但其有效性却因执法和利益相关方服务行为受到影响。解决这些障碍需要有针对性的一揽子政策，以弥合推定的建筑性能目标与实践中实际观察到的结果之间的差距。执法和利益相关者在服务中的行为问题困扰着它们的有效性。解决这些障碍需要有针对性的一揽子政策，以弥合已确定的建筑性能目标与实践中实际观察到的结果之间的差距。执法和利益相关者在服务中的行为问题困扰着它们的有效性。解决这些障碍需要有针对性的一揽子政策，以弥合已确定的建筑性能目标与实践中实际观察到的结果之间的差距。