Abstract
This study aims at encouraging the CDM projects, which contribute to sustainable development (SD) of host countries. For this purpose, a novel mathematical model is proposed to evaluate CDMprojects fromthe viewpoint of SD. Namely, we identify the hierarchical structure of SD indicators, using DEMATEL method. Furthermore, our evaluation model is successfully simplified, since it does not need a complicated process, but just a result of DEMATEL analysis. Next, 67 projects are evaluated as case studies, using the proposedmodel. As a result, a degree of contributing to SD of methane related projects tends to be high. However, it is necessary to evaluate projects one by one, since a degree of contributing to SD is varied widely even among same type of projects.
