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Evaluating projects that are potentially eligible for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) funding in the South African context: a case study to establish weighting values for sustainable development criteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2005

ALAN C. BRENT ,
RENAT HEUBERGER  and
DUMISANI MANZINI
ALAN C. BRENT
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering and Technology Management, Room 4–12, Engineering 2, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa. Tel: +27 12 420 3929. Fax: +27 12 362 5307. E-mail: [email protected]
RENAT HEUBERGER
Affiliation:
Institute of Environmental Physics, Energy and Climate, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
DUMISANI MANZINI
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering and Technology Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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Abstract

Development projects that are potentially eligible for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) funding under the Kyoto Protocol, require final approval from the host countries where the projects are to be implemented. The approval requires an evaluation of the positive contribution of the CDM project to sustainable development in the host country. A prototype set of sustainable development criteria is introduced using an evaluation process conducted in South Africa. Weighting values that reflect societal priorities in South Africa are required for these criteria. The paper shows how judgements of industry decision makers and the expenditure trends of the national government (on environmental sub-criteria) can be used to generate a first approximation of such weighting values. The industry judgements are obtained from an Analytical Hierarch Process (AHP) survey. They reflect the perceptions of the automotive supply chain and process industry only, and not other parts of the South African society. A more comprehensive study is required to determine the political and social acceptability of the AHP approach, which should be initiated and managed by the Designated National Authority (DNA) of South Africa.

Type
Research Article
Information
Environment and Development Economics , Volume 10 , Issue 5 , October 2005 , pp. 631 - 649
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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