Title :
A study on developing the indicators of energy conservation and carbon reduction for the business
Author :
Liang-kong Lin ; Den, Walter ; Ying-Chyi Chou ; Hsin-Yi Yen ; Ching-Hua Lu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Life Sci., Tunghai Univ., Taichung, Taiwan
Abstract :
Green House Gas (GHG) emission has become a critical issue for firms to achieve sustainability. This paper focuses on improving enterprises allocate resource on greening more efficiently and proposes a hybrid MCDM model combining Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Decision-making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) to recognize the crucial criteria which have dependence and causality, and build the network relationship map among all GHG criteria. Eighteen criteria of GHG emission with six dimensions were selected from the literatures and modified by six experts of energy sector. The results showed that improve energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption are recognized to be the most influential dimensions of six. In addition, identifying the causality between six dimensions provide an insight for practitioners utilizing firm´s resources in GHG emission more effectively.
Keywords :
air pollution; analytic hierarchy process; climate mitigation; energy conservation; environmental legislation; resource allocation; analytic hierarchy process; carbon reduction; energy conservation; energy consumption; energy efficiency; greenhouse gas emission; resource allocation; Carbon; Energy conservation; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Green products; Production; Technological innovation; Corporate sustainability; DEMATEL; Greenhouse gas emission; MCDM;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058887