The monitoring and calculation of the Energy Mad emission reductions was in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism Approved Methodology AM0046, ‘Distribution of efficient light bulbs to households’. This rigorous methodology is the global benchmark standard for measuring carbon dioxide emission reductions resulting from residential energy efficient lighting projects.

United Nations designated operational entity, Det Norske Veritas, was engaged by Energy Mad to independently verify that the methodology had been implemented correctly and that the claimed emission reductions were true and accurate.

AM0046 contains the following two key principles:

• The project must be environmentally additional. This is a check to ensure that the emission reductions created by the project were additional to the emission reductions that would have taken place under a ‘business as usual’ scenario.

• The project must be financially additional. This a check to ensure that the project would not have been viable without the revenue from the sale of the resultant carbon credits.