A study on developing the indicators of energy conservation and carbon reduction for the business

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.

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