The negative impacts related to environmental degradation have led to the formulation of the sustainable development paradigm. Business environments, pressured by society seek this new development model through the implementation of environmental management systems. The main objective of this paper is to present a decisionmaking methodological framework, which prioritizes alternative options. The TODIM (Interactive Multicriteria Decision Making) method was used as one of the Multicriteria Decision-Making tools. The case study is a branch multinational corporation, located in Rio de Janeiro, which provides temporary power and temperature control solutions. Eight employees from different sectors of the company were selected to evaluate alternatives according to different qualitative criteria. It was shown that there is a conflict of opinion on ranking alternatives due to the interdependence of the alternatives and also because different actors see the problem from different perspectives and have different interests. The results showed that the main alternative, according to the majority of actors, is the implementation of an environmental education program to avoid wastes and to educate and inform employees about environmental issues. The second alternative chosen was the development of a spill containment plan.
Environmental management; Multinational company; Multicriteria analysis; TODIM
