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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
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        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
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          "condition": "The receiving states and national-plan or programme connection are evidenced. Least developed, African, small-island developing and landlocked developing states are priority examples, not the only possible states with greatest need."
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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          "condition": "A city, settlement or urban-system setting is substantively part of the intervention or research purpose; no country restriction applies. One substantive goal limb suffices."
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        "Do not infer urban sustainability merely because a project is based in a city.",
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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          "condition": "The activity concerns urbanization or human-settlement planning/management, with the selected limb evidenced; all countries are eligible."
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        "Do not turn stakeholder participation in any research into participatory urban planning.",
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          "condition": "The protected subject is evidenced as cultural or natural heritage; no geographic restriction applies and formal designation is not invented as an extra requirement."
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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      "definition": "By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations",
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Do not convert a planned sustainable product launch into demonstrated market adoption or waste reduction.",
        "Developing a cleaner, lighter, more efficient or lower-emission technology, fuel, material, organism or process does not by itself qualify: the source must state the production or consumption practice it changes, where, and for whom. Energy efficiency or emission reduction alone is not a change in consumption or production patterns."
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        "Do not treat all work involving biological material as sustainable resource management.",
        "Higher yield, productivity or efficiency of a crop, animal, organism, technology or process does not qualify unless the source states the natural-resource saving it delivers."
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        "Distinguish pollutant background from the compounds or waste streams actually studied. Risk assessment may be planned; prior bans do not prove the current study has run.",
        "Containment and cleanup can qualify without being primary prevention of the original release. Do not describe source-claimed performance as independently verified impact.",
        "Developing a cleaner, lighter, more efficient or lower-emission technology, fuel, material, organism or process does not by itself qualify: the source must state the production or consumption practice it changes, where, and for whom. Energy efficiency or emission reduction alone is not a change in consumption or production patterns."
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
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        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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          "condition": "The work is substantively marine. For an ocean-health limb, the ocean-health pathway must be evidenced; for a marine-biodiversity development-benefit limb, developing-country beneficiaries must be evidenced. Small-island developing and least developed states are priorities within that latter scope, not the only eligible developing countries."
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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      "definition": "Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of “The future we want”",
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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      "uri": "http://data.europa.eu/sdg/15.1",
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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      "uri": "http://data.europa.eu/sdg/15.2",
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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      "uri": "http://data.europa.eu/sdg/15.3",
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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      "uri": "http://data.europa.eu/sdg/15.4",
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          "condition": "A habitat, biodiversity-loss process or threatened-species protection context is identifiable; the selected limb does not require all other limbs."
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        "Do not invent threatened status or habitat-conservation objectives from a species name."
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      "definition": "Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species",
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          "condition": "The activity concerns genetic resources and their access or resulting benefits, with a concrete fairness/access governance pathway; no country or indigenous-group restriction is added."
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Doing research, developing methods or publishing results is not a contribution to research capacity (9.5) unless the source states an increase of research or technological capacity of a sector or country.",
        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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      "uri": "http://data.europa.eu/sdg/15.7",
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Doing research, developing methods or publishing results is not a contribution to research capacity (9.5) unless the source states an increase of research or technological capacity of a sector or country.",
        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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      "uri": "http://data.europa.eu/sdg/15.8",
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      "definition": "By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts",
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          "condition": "The finance mechanism or resource-mobilization activity and the biodiversity/ecosystem use are identifiable; funding may originate from any source and no country restriction applies."
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      "definition": "Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems",
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          "condition": "The financed or incentivized activity concerns sustainable forest management, including conservation or reforestation. The incentives limb specifically requires developing-country beneficiaries; the forest-finance limb is not restricted to them."
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        "Do not infer incentives or financial mobilization from a research award."
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      "definition": "Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation",
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          "condition": "Protected species and an anti-poaching or anti-trafficking purpose are evidenced; any local-community livelihoods activity must be linked to that purpose."
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          "condition": "The social, justice or institutional setting and the selected goal limb are identifiable; no country restriction applies."
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
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        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
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      "definition": "Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income for official development assistance (ODA/GNI) to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries",
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "A project consortium, research collaboration, fellowship, twinning, mobility scheme, advisory or stakeholder board, network of project partners, living lab or co-creation with stakeholders is not a partnership contribution unless building that partnership is itself a stated deliverable with a sustainable-development purpose beyond the project's own research."
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          "condition": "The project's own current work explicitly contributes to a specific component of this concept's official text, through a mechanism the source states; one genuine component of a compound concept is sufficient."
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
        "Doing research, developing methods or publishing results is not a contribution to research capacity (9.5) unless the source states an increase of research or technological capacity of a sector or country.",
        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
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        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
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        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
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        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
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        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
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        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
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        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
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        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
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          "condition": "The project explicitly investigates or develops an upgrade to infrastructure or an industrial retrofit, process change or adoption pathway that improves sustainability through resource efficiency or cleaner technologies and processes."
        },
        {
          "id": "scope",
          "condition": "Identify the stated TYPE of infrastructure or industrial activity and the resource-use or environmental mechanism. Grid integration, energy storage systems, building cooling and construction materials are identifiable infrastructure or industrial types; a named facility, installed asset, external certification of the type, quantified benefit or completed retrofit is NOT required. A stated research/pilot adoption pathway for that type can qualify. It must still state the resource or environmental improvement; generic novelty or lower financial cost alone is insufficient."
        }
      ],
      "prohibited_leaps": [
        "Generic novelty, lower financial cost or faster software does not establish a sustainability upgrade.",
        "Do not infer an industrial retrofit from a material's hypothetical usefulness; the intended infrastructure or industrial improvement must be stated.",
        "For materials and devices, identify their stated building, infrastructure or industrial use and the resource/environmental improvement. A planned research pathway is eligible; an installed retrofit is not required.",
        "Lower cost, smaller size, solar subject matter or a novel manufacturing technique does not alone establish environmentally cleaner production. Do not invent a specific product form such as panels when the source only identifies materials.",
        "Digital infrastructure is eligible when the required sustainability mechanism is stated; do not require physical infrastructure categorically.",
        "Do not mark scope unknown merely because a described grid, energy storage, building or manufacturing system is not literally called infrastructure in the source. The source may identify the system by its ordinary technical name. Require its stated sustainability mechanism, not that taxonomy word or a named installation.",
        "Planned integration of renewable energy through improved power-grid/storage systems is a clean-technology adoption pathway when the source states that integration and its environmental purpose. Do not additionally require completed carbon measurements. This does not imply that every solar-related manufacturing technique is cleaner production."
      ],
      "interpretation_sources": [
        "http://data.europa.eu/sdg/9.4",
        "https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal9"
      ],
      "authorship": "AI-authored Mesh interpretation; revised after backlog100 development review; independent human validation pending",
      "claim_grounding": "mesh-claim-grounding-v1",
      "contribution_routes": [
        {
          "id": "infrastructure_upgrade",
          "description": "A stated infrastructure improvement with a specific resource-use or environmental mechanism."
        },
        {
          "id": "industrial_process_change",
          "description": "A stated industrial retrofit, process or adoption change with a specific resource-use or environmental mechanism."
        }
      ]
    },
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      "criteria": [
        {
          "id": "purpose",
          "condition": "The project explicitly increases research or technological capacity of a named sector, country or institution beyond the project itself: new facilities or infrastructure opened to others, researchers or R&D staff added or trained for that sector, or capabilities transferred into industry. Conducting research, developing methods, models or tools, publishing or disseminating results does not by itself qualify."
        },
        {
          "id": "scope",
          "condition": "The selected limb concerns scientific research or industrial technological capabilities as stated in the target. All countries are eligible; developing countries are a priority, not an exclusive beneficiary class."
        }
      ],
      "prohibited_leaps": [
        "Do not assign this target automatically to every research project, publication, grant or consortium.",
        "A specific new research method, research-capacity programme or capability upgrade can satisfy the research limb without a separate industrial-output claim.",
        "Do not invent industrial uptake, increased national R&D spending or researchers-per-million outcomes.",
        "Conducting research, developing methods, models or tools, publishing or disseminating results does not by itself qualify."
      ],
      "uri": "http://data.europa.eu/sdg/9.5",
      "definition": "Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending",
      "definition_sha256": "d2ee6f05ec5c4b071376bcf94984cfa317fe37c623533878a871a1e98937b48a",
      "hardened": "mesh-rubric-set-2.4.6"
    },
    {
      "code": "9.a",
      "criteria": [
        {
          "id": "purpose",
          "condition": "The project's own current work explicitly contributes to a specific component of this concept's official text, through a mechanism the source states; one genuine component of a compound concept is sufficient."
        },
        {
          "id": "scope",
          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
        }
      ],
      "prohibited_leaps": [
        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
        "Doing research, developing methods or publishing results is not a contribution to research capacity (9.5) unless the source states an increase of research or technological capacity of a sector or country.",
        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
      ],
      "uri": "http://data.europa.eu/sdg/9.a",
      "definition": "Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States",
      "definition_sha256": "19c8289a7412b2ebd6c8de5bd5cb54fc1a6890057495c532c537e7a01026aaf8",
      "rubric_kind": "generic_fallback"
    },
    {
      "code": "9.b",
      "uri": "http://data.europa.eu/sdg/9.b",
      "definition": "Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a conducive policy environment for, inter alia, industrial diversification and value addition to commodities",
      "definition_sha256": "e4efd7473b198515245d13540e363617117636e168b556e6ac232d74736a1d08",
      "criteria": [
        {
          "id": "purpose",
          "condition": "The project explicitly supports domestic technology development, research or innovation, including its enabling policies or capabilities, rather than merely producing a technology with unspecified future users."
        },
        {
          "id": "scope",
          "condition": "The actual supported domestic activity must be in a developing-country context established by a supplied, independently verified eligibility record with a named classification and applicable date. Until that context is supplied, scope is unknown, not proved absent. Country names, EU membership and coordinator location cannot replace the record. Industrial diversification and commodity value addition are examples, not jointly mandatory outcomes."
        }
      ],
      "prohibited_leaps": [
        "Generic innovation in Europe cannot establish this target's geographic scope.",
        "Do not invent developing-country beneficiaries or treat research about a country as support for its domestic research and innovation capacity. Missing scope information remains unknown, not proved absent.",
        "Geographic eligibility is not inferred by the model. This profile requires independently verified context for the actual beneficiary activity; none is supplied in the current batch, so scope remains unknown. This does not mean every European project is ineligible.",
        "Keep developing-country claims out of the purpose explanation until scope evidence establishes them."
      ],
      "interpretation_sources": [
        "http://data.europa.eu/sdg/9.b",
        "https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal9"
      ],
      "authorship": "AI-authored Mesh interpretation; revised after backlog100 development review; independent human validation pending",
      "claim_grounding": "mesh-claim-grounding-v1",
      "contribution_routes": [
        {
          "id": "domestic_technology_capacity",
          "description": "Domestic technology development, research or innovation capability; geographic eligibility is assessed separately, never invented in purpose."
        }
      ],
      "geographic_scope_policy": "verified_context_required"
    },
    {
      "code": "9.c",
      "criteria": [
        {
          "id": "purpose",
          "condition": "The project's own current work explicitly contributes to a specific component of this concept's official text, through a mechanism the source states; one genuine component of a compound concept is sufficient."
        },
        {
          "id": "scope",
          "condition": "Any restriction the official text sets (particular countries such as developing, least developed or small island developing States; a population such as women, children, older persons or indigenous peoples; a sector or a named instrument) is shown in the source for the project's own work. When the official text sets no restriction, none is added."
        }
      ],
      "prohibited_leaps": [
        "Shared words, a topic named as background or motivation, or generic usefulness do not establish a contribution.",
        "Doing research, developing methods or publishing results is not a contribution to research capacity (9.5) unless the source states an increase of research or technological capacity of a sector or country.",
        "Having partners, a consortium, a stakeholder board or international participants is not a partnership contribution (goal 17).",
        "Economic value, jobs or competitiveness mentioned generically do not establish goal 8.",
        "Earlier work or a later phase that depends on the project's success is not the project's own current work.",
        "Targets about finance, aid, trade rules or government commitments are not met by a research project unless it states that it builds that capacity, instrument or policy."
      ],
      "uri": "http://data.europa.eu/sdg/9.c",
      "definition": "Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020",
      "definition_sha256": "968cb26722ab9a905738b26d1bcf21f02695192f388fa0d8c075220b35bb4356",
      "rubric_kind": "generic_fallback"
    }
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  "addition_version": "backlog-fidelity-20260925-v2",
  "rubric_set_version": "mesh-rubric-set-2.4.8-hardened-8-9-12-17-v1"
}