Can renewable energy sources be a viable instrument for climate change mitigation? Evidence from EU countries via MCDM methods

GÖKGÖZ F., Yalçin E.

Climate Change Science: Causes, Effects and Solutions for Global Warming, Elsevier, ss.19-39, 2021 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/b978-0-12-823767-0.00002-1
  • Yayınevi: Elsevier
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.19-39
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Climate change mitigation, Complex proportional assessment, COPRAS, Energy, MCDM, Multi-criteria decision-making, Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution, TOPSIS
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this chapter, our principal aim is to evaluate the climate change mitigation performance for renewable energy sources (RES) of the European Union (EU) countries via multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods. We employ Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) integrated Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and Complex Proportional Assessment (COPRAS) methods to assess the environmental impact performance of the EU countries. As per the results, Sweden and Denmark were found to be the best performing countries according to TOPSIS and COPRAS results, respectively. Further, Remaining Nordic and Baltic countries also performed better in comparison to other EU countries. We conclude that highly industrialized EU members performed worse in terms of environmental performance. In this regard, we also conclude that MCDM methods may provide significant consequences for decision makers and collaborators in the energy area.