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AMS-II.L — Demand-side activities for efficient outdoor and street lighting technologies

About this methodology

Projects install efficient street lighting; the method measures emissions avoided through lower electricity consumption.

Version
2.0 · source ·
Status
Active at CDM / UNFCCC · source ·
Climate outcome
Emission reductions
Activity
Lighting
Official page
cdm.unfccc.int ·
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How methodology v3 reads projects of this type

What CarbonMeld reads

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    Grid emission factor: the methodology sets rules for it. CarbonMeld reads it in the project's documents. CM-F-AMS-II-L-GRID-EF

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    Leakage: the methodology sets rules for it in some cases (AMS-II.L v02, p. 10). CarbonMeld reads it in the project's documents. CM-F-AMS-II-L-LEAKAGE

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  • A confirmed investment analysis A-INVEST

    The documents show a project-level additionality test, the validation confirmed it, and it is an investment analysis (a numeric test of the project's finances with and without carbon revenue).

Set by the methodology or the programme, not assessed by our current method

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    Usage rate of the devices: the methodology sets rules for it (AMS-II.L v02 definitions, p. 8). Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AMS-II-L-USAGE

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  • not assessed

    Social safeguards and consent of communities (FPIC): any such rules come from the programme, not the methodology. Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AMS-II-L-SAFEGUARDS-FPIC

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Not applicable to this type — never a gap in our current method

The criterion does not apply to this methodology. Our current method never counts it as a gap.

The general rules apply as well. Read the general rules.

The rules of methodology v2.2, as they were: the archived v2.2 page.

History and transitions

  • v02.0adopted 4 Oct 2013source

    . Revision to remove the limitations that restrict the methodology to a fixed crediting period.

  • v01adopted 15 Apr 2011source

    Initial adoption.

Projects using AMS-II.L

Browse 14 published projects using AMS-II.L, listed alphabetically. There is no ranking for this methodology yet: it appears here automatically once 5 of its projects not in the pipeline or under validation are rated. Open a project to view its registry details and the analysis available for that project.

Which registries list projects under AMS-II.L?

In CarbonMeld's data, AMS-II.L projects are on 5 registries: Global Carbon Council (6), CDM (3) and Verra (3), and 2 more. Being listed on a registry is not the same as being registered: the «Registered» column counts the projects each registry shows as registered, and credits are issued only after each verification.

RegistryProjectsRegisteredProjects list
Global Carbon Council (GCC)60See the list
CDM (UNFCCC)31See the list
Verra (VCS)32See the list
Gold Standard (GS)10See the list
Universal Carbon Registry (UCR)10See the list

Counts of project records in CarbonMeld's data, with or without a CarbonMeld analysis. «Registered» counts the records whose current registry status is «registered», as last read (15 November 2026); projects in a later status, such as awaiting verification approval, late to verify or completed, are not in that column.

3 of these projects have no number: additionality, quantification or both have no public grade of their type of project that applies to them yet. Their pages show the analysis.

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