Selection of appropriate greenhouse gas mitigation options

Greenhouse gas mitigation options help in reducing greenhouse gas emissions so as to avoid the adverse environmental impacts due to global warming/cli mate change. They have different characteristics when evaluated using diffe rent criteria. For example, some options may be very cost effective, while some may have an additional advantage of reducing local pollution. Hence, s election of these options, for consideration by a national government or by a funding agency, has to incorporate multiple criteria. In this paper, som e important criteria relevant to the selection are discussed, and a multi-c riteria methodology is suggested for making appropriate selection. The meth odology, called the Analytic Hierarchy Process, is described using two illu strations. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.