Evaluating climate change mitigation options in the Philippines with analytic hierarchy process (AHP)

College

Gokongwei College of Engineering

Department/Unit

Chemical Engineering

Document Type

Article

Source Title

ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volume

13

Issue

1

First Page

61

Last Page

66

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Abstract

The environmental problem of climate change is an issue that needs to be addressed worldwide. As the electricity-generating power sector is the largest contributor of CO2in the country, low-carbon technologies or sustainable energy systems are being considered as viable alternatives to reduce the CO2emissions from this sector. These are fossil-based power plants with carbon capture and storage (F-CCS) technology, nuclearenergy (NE) and renewable energy (RE) technologies, particularly solar energy (SE), wind energy (WE), hydroelectricity (HE), geothermal energy (GE) and biomass (BE). However, successful implementation of any of these CCMOs depends not only on the technical and economic aspect but also the socio-political aspect of the project.This study therefore proposes an analytical decision modeling framework to evaluate these options by incorporating the subjective judgment of stakeholders. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to structure the problem and quantify the relative preference of each option with respect to four criteria namely environmental effectiveness (EE), economic viability (EV), technical implementability (TI), and social acceptability (SA).Results from the decision model indicate that the most important criterion is environmental effectiveness, and the least important is social acceptability. With respect to environmental effectiveness, their most preferred CCMO was solar energy whereas their least preferred is nuclear energy mainly because of the risk posed by the generated nuclear wastes. With respect to economic viability, their most preferred CCMO was geothermal energy, and the least preferred was nuclear energy. With respect to technical implementability, the respondents gave the highest preference weight on geothermal energy and the least preferred is nuclear energy. With respect to social acceptability, the most preferred was wind energy andagain, the least preferred was nuclear energy.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.22146/ajche.49725

Disciplines

Environmental Engineering

Keywords

Climate change mitigation--Philippines; Climatic changes--Philippines

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