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 Before a policy, investment, or corporate initiative advances to budget committees, boards, or parliaments, it must answer five core questions and one transversal test:

Core Principles:

• Does it preserve or strengthen Life?
• Does it respect the dignity of future generations (Progeny)?
• Does it distribute wealth and resources fairly (Wealth)?
• Does it protect freedom of conscience and belief (Conscience)?
• Does it advance knowledge and reason (Intellect)?

Transversal Test:

• Does it maintain Balance? (Are gains in one principle achieved by compromising another? Does this create coherence or fragmentation?)

If a proposal fails any core principle test, it is deemed incoherent and cannot proceed. If a proposal passes all five principles individually but violates Balance (e.g., "we're improving worker Wealth but destroying ecological Balance"), it is also rejected as incoherent. This is not a veto; it is a filter. Proposals that pass MAP—satisfying all five principles in balance—advance to the normal governance cycle with ethics already embedded, reducing downstream contradictions.

Where MAP is Used:

• Government: Cabinet-level policy reviews, regulatory impact assessments
• Corporate: Board approval for new products, acquisitions, supply chains
• Financial: Investment committees evaluating ESG claims
• Civic: Budget allocation processes at municipal level

AIG recognizes that the Higher Objectives cannot be achieved by any one actor alone, and that Balance—the principle ensuring no one objective dominates—requires all stakeholders to be present in decision-making:

• Life requires voice from health systems (government), workers (corporate), communities (civil society), and families
• Progeny requires voice from environment/education sectors (government), sustainability officers (corporate), youth organizations (civil society), and parents
• Wealth requires voice from fiscal authorities (government), business leaders, worker unions (civil society), and economic participants (individual)
• Conscience requires voice from justice/pluralism authorities (government), ethics officers (corporate), faith/cultural organizations (civil society), and citizens
• Intellect requires voice from science/education (government), R&D (corporate), universities/media (civil society), and learners

Without all five voices at the table, Balance is impossible. One principle will inevitably dominate.

AIG embeds this interdependence into governance structures:

1. Co-design with Balance-Guards: Policies are designed with input from governments, affected corporations, civil society representatives, and affected communities—but crucially, with specific roles ensuring each principle is advocated for. This prevents one principle from being traded away.
2. Shared Metrics: Rather than each actor measuring success differently, they adopt common indicators aligned with the five principles and Balance. If Wealth improves but Life/Balance degrades, this is flagged as incoherent, not as a trade-off to be accepted.
3. Accountability Chains: Each actor is accountable not only to its own constituents but to the coherence framework. A corporation cannot claim ESG compliance if its supply chains violate worker safety (Life) for profit (Wealth unbalanced). A government cannot claim climate leadership if it expands fossil subsidies (Balance violation) for economic growth (Wealth).
4. Balance Dispute Resolution: When actors conflict—e.g., a corporation's short-term profit maximization threatens community Progeny—AIG provides mechanisms to resolve it not through compromise (which risks further imbalance) but through redesign that serves all five principles. If no redesign is possible, the initiative is rejected under MAP.

Where AIG is Used:

• Government: Multi-stakeholder policy councils (e.g., climate action bringing together transport, energy, labor, environment ministries)
• Corporate: Supply chain governance involving governments, suppliers, unions, and community representatives
• Financial: Sovereign wealth funds and development banks integrating government, market, and civil society inputs
• Civic: Participatory budgeting and governance structures

 CIF uses data integration and algorithmic analysis to detect these Balance violations early, before they accumulate into systemic failures.

Three Layers of Monitoring:

1. Principle-Specific Signals 

• Life indicators: Mortality rates, health outcomes, poverty levels
• Progeny indicators: Educational access, demographic sustainability, intergenerational mobility
• Wealth indicators: Income distribution, asset access, economic stability
• Conscience indicators: Freedom indices, pluralism metrics, trust in institutions
• Intellect indicators: Literacy, research funding, media integrity
• Balance indicators: Ecological footprint, inequality ratios, sectoral coherence

2. Balance-Violation Detection 

• CIF doesn't just track each principle independently; it detects when gains in one are achieved by losses in another: 
• "Carbon reduction on track (Balance improving) BUT worker displacement from coal phase-out exceeds retraining capacity (Wealth/Progeny declining)" = Balance violation flagged
• "Profit growth strong (Wealth) BUT ecosystem degradation accelerates (Balance violated, which threatens Life)"
• "GDP growth targets met (Wealth) BUT inequality widens AND intergenerational debt rises (Progeny compromised)"

3. Early Warning System 

• CIF flags "coherence fractures"—divergences between stated commitments and operational reality, or when one principle's gains come at another's expense
• Example: A sustainability report claims carbon neutrality AND worker protection, but data shows retraining is underfunded; CIF alerts that Balance cannot be claimed until both are verified

Data Sources:

• National accounts and corporate financial systems (Wealth)
• Health, education, and demographic statistics (Life, Progeny)
• Environmental monitoring and footprint analysis (Balance)
• Media ownership, press freedom indices, academic autonomy (Intellect, Conscience)
• Inequality metrics, survey data on public trust (Balance across all principles)

Human Oversight: CIF is not autonomous. Algorithms detect divergences and principle conflicts; humans interpret context and decide action. This preserves accountability while enabling scale and speed.

Where CIF is Used:

• Government: Treasury and planning agencies integrating budget data with health/environment/education outcomes
• Corporate: Enterprise systems connecting supply chain data with labor, environmental, and governance metrics
• Financial: Portfolio management systems detecting ESG contradictions
• International: OECD, World Bank, EU systems tracking SDG progress across coherence dimensions

Four Components:

1. Scenario Testing for Balance 

• Before large-scale adoption, policies and investments are stress-tested not just for individual principle outcomes but for Balance maintenance: 
• "If climate impacts accelerate, can we sustain carbon transition WITHOUT sacrificing workers' Wealth and Progeny? Or does Balance break?"
• "If AI advances faster than regulation, which of the five principles might be compromised? How do we protect Balance?"
• "If supply chains fracture, which worker protections might collapse (Wealth/Progeny), and what's the alternative that maintains Balance?"
• This is not prediction but Balance-centered ethical preparation—ensuring all five principles remain protected even under duress

2. Citizen Review Panels for Balance 

• Communities most affected by a policy participate in scenario testing, with specific representation for each principle. This surfaces local knowledge and distributes power away from technocrats
• Crucially, affected groups don't just advocate for their own interest but collectively ensure Balance is maintained
• Example: A climate transition policy is tested with affected workers (Wealth/Progeny), indigenous communities (Life/Balance), businesses (Wealth), and future generations' representatives; their collective review reshapes the policy before implementation to ensure no principle is sacrificed

3. Balance Tipping Point Monitoring 

Certain breaches of Balance trigger automatic policy review: 

• If one principle improves while another declines significantly (e.g., emissions fall but inequality rises, or jobs grow but health metrics fall)
• If any core principle falls below critical threshold AND cannot be restored within timeframe
• If the ratio of burden-sharing becomes skewed (e.g., costs concentrated on vulnerable populations while benefits accrue to wealthy)

When crossed, governance pauses and reassesses, rather than continuing on autopilot

2. Iterative Refinement for Balance 

Rather than 5-year policy cycles, AES embeds 6-month reflection cycles where evidence is reviewed: 

• Are all five principles advancing together, or is one being sacrificed?
• If Balance is broken, what redesign restores it?
• What safeguards prevent future Balance violations?
• This is particularly critical for technologies (AI, biotech, surveillance) where risks to Balance emerge faster than governance can adapt

Where AES is Used:

• Government: Technology regulation, major infrastructure projects, emergency response protocols
• Corporate: Product launches in new markets, algorithmic systems deployments, M&A integration
• Financial: Stress-testing before major capital allocation decisions
• International: Treaty implementation review cycles, adaptive management frameworks

What It Means

Life is the most fundamental principle. It encompasses:

• Physical survival: Food, clean water, shelter, safety from violence
• Public health: Access to healthcare, disease prevention, healthy environments
• Security: Freedom from fear, predictable legal systems, protection from harm
• Ecological foundation: Clean air, stable climate, functioning ecosystems
• Dignity in existence: Life lived with basic respect and agency, not mere survival

Why It Matters

Without life, all other goods are impossible. Future generations cannot be secured if people are starving today. Resources cannot be justly distributed if communities are dying of preventable disease. Knowledge cannot flourish if people are consumed by survival anxiety. Moral freedom cannot exist if people live in fear.

This principle appears across human civilizations. Indigenous traditions prioritize "seven generations" of human and ecological survival. Christian theology affirms the sanctity of life. Jewish law protects the vulnerable. Secular human rights frameworks place life and health at the foundation of dignity. Islamic jurisprudence recognizes that in cases of existential threat, survival takes priority—but this principle has a universal lesson: life is so fundamental that ordinary governance must never make survival exceptional. It is the baseline condition for everything else.

Cross-Civilizational Grounding

• Indigenous wisdom: Connection to land, water, and living systems as non-negotiable foundation for flourishing
• Religious traditions: Sanctity of life appears across Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and others
• Modern philosophy: Rights-based frameworks (Rawls, Nussbaum) place survival and health as primary capabilities
• Environmental science: Planetary boundaries research shows ecological thresholds are non-negotiable for human survival

How It Shows Up in Governance

• Government: Healthcare systems, food security, public safety, housing policy, environmental protection
• Corporate: Workplace safety, product safety, supply chain labor conditions, environmental footprint
• Financial: Lending that doesn't trap people in debt-based starvation, investment that doesn't fund exploitation
• Civic: Community care networks, mutual aid, local food security, neighborhood safety

Balance and Life

Life without Balance collapses into ecological crisis. A policy that improves public health while destroying ecosystems violates Balance because it undermines the future Life of coming generations. A corporation that increases worker safety (Life) while poisoning the local water supply (Balance violation) has failed the test.

What It Means

Progeny extends beyond children to future generations and the conditions that make flourishing possible. It encompasses:

• Family and kinship: Stable relationships, protection of dependents, intergenerational care
• Education: Investment in learning, skill development, cultural transmission
• Ecological sustainability: Preserving resources, not depleting the commons, leaving a habitable world
• Institutional continuity: Building systems that serve multiple generations, not extracting value for immediate gain
• Demographic stability: Conditions where families can plan and children can thrive
• Intergenerational justice: Refusing to load burdens (debt, environmental damage) onto future people

Why It Matters

Progeny is the principle of time itself. It asks: What are we building that will last? What are we leaving behind? A society that maximizes present consumption at the cost of future instability has chosen convenience over justice. Progeny rejects this bargain.

This is why every enduring civilization has emphasized intergenerational responsibility. Indigenous cultures institutionalize the "seventh generation principle"—decisions must be evaluated by their impact on descendants seven generations forward. Religious traditions across the world teach stewardship and custodianship of resources for those to come. Modern climate science quantifies exactly what this principle demands: we must live within planetary boundaries so future humans have a habitable world.

Cross-Civilizational Grounding

• Indigenous wisdom: Seventh generation principle embedded in decision-making across North American, African, and Pacific cultures
• Religious traditions: Stewardship and custodianship appear across Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism; intergenerational justice is universal religious teaching
• Environmental science: Planetary boundaries research and climate models quantify what intergenerational justice requires
• Modern ethics: Philosophers from Hans Jonas to Derek Parfit argue that future people have moral standing in our decisions today

How It Shows Up in Governance

• Government: Education funding, climate policy, long-term infrastructure, pension systems, environmental conservation, family support policies
• Corporate: Sustainability reporting, supply chain resilience, long-term R&D (not just quarterly returns), worker development, intergenerational equity in compensation
• Financial: Patient capital, long-term investments, climate risk accounting, avoidance of predatory lending
• Civic: Youth mentorship, knowledge transmission, community memory, stewardship of shared resources

Balance and Progeny

Progeny without Balance leads to unsustainable extraction. A policy that educates children while poisoning their future environment violates Balance. A corporation that invests in worker development while depleting the ecological commons has failed the test. Progeny demands that we secure future generations without sacrificing their Life or Balance.

 What It Means

Intellect is the capacity for reason, understanding, and the pursuit of truth. It encompasses:

• Education and learning: Access to knowledge, critical thinking, intellectual development
• Freedom of inquiry: The right to question, research, and challenge established ideas
• Truth and accuracy: Protection against disinformation, propaganda, and deliberate manipulation
• Scientific integrity: Support for research, evidence-based decision-making, technological advancement
• Moral reasoning: The capacity to distinguish right from wrong, justice from injustice
• Intellectual autonomy: Freedom from coercion or manipulation of thought

Why It Matters

Intellect is what enables humans to understand reality and make free, informed choices. Without it, people cannot consent to governance; they can only be controlled. Without it, communities cannot solve problems or adapt to change. Without it, societies stagnate.

Every human civilization has recognized that the capacity to think, question, and learn is indispensable. Plato placed reason at the center of justice. Confucian philosophy makes education foundational to social order. Indigenous traditions pass knowledge across generations through teaching and dialogue. Modern democracies depend on educated citizens who can evaluate evidence and hold power accountable.

Cross-Civilizational Grounding

• Philosophical traditions: Greek philosophy (Socrates, Aristotle), Chinese philosophy (Confucius), African ubuntu philosophy all prioritize reason and learning
• Religious traditions: Buddhism emphasizes investigation and reasoning; Judaism prizes scholarly debate; Christianity values wisdom; Islamic tradition celebrates seeking knowledge ("seeking knowledge is an obligation")
• Scientific tradition: Empiricism, the scientific method, peer review—all protect Intellect through processes that demand accuracy and critical questioning
• Democratic theory: Free speech, academic freedom, and open discourse are essential to governance because they protect the ability to reason collectively

How It Shows Up in Governance

• Government: Education budgets, academic freedom protections, scientific research funding, media diversity, fact-checking infrastructure
• Corporate: R&D investment, transparency and honest reporting, employee training and skill development, protection against algorithmic manipulation
• Financial: Support for education and research institutions, investment in innovation, divestment from disinformation campaigns
• Civic: Public libraries, community education, citizen science, local journalism, mentorship and knowledge-sharing

Balance and Intellect

Intellect without Balance becomes destructive. A technology that advances knowledge while enabling surveillance and manipulation violates Balance. A corporation that invests in R&D while suppressing worker voice or manipulating consumer information has failed the test. Intellect must serve all five principles, not dominate them.

What It Means

Conscience is the capacity to hold and act on moral convictions, including but not limited to religious belief. It encompasses:

• Freedom of religion: The right to believe, practice, and change one's faith
• Freedom of philosophy: The right to hold ethical and metaphysical convictions
• Moral dignity: The recognition that each person has an irreducible moral status
• Freedom of conscience: The right to follow one's deepest convictions even when unpopular
• Critical conscience: The right to dissent, question authority, and bear witness to injustice regardless of pressure
• Pluralism: Recognition that people hold different moral convictions and deserve equal respect

Why It Matters

Conscience is the seat of human dignity. It is what allows people to say "no" to unjust commands, to stand with the oppressed even when alone, to maintain moral integrity under pressure. Without Conscience, people are mere instruments of authority. Without Conscience, communities cannot have genuine moral conversation—they can only enforce conformity.

This principle appears in every enduring civilization and ethical tradition. Freedom of belief is a universal human right recognized across cultures. The capacity to witness injustice and speak truth is protected in legal traditions worldwide. Philosophers from different eras and places recognize that moral autonomy—the right to follow one's conscience—is foundational to human dignity.

Cross-Civilizational Grounding

• Universal human rights: Freedom of conscience and religion protected in international law across all nations
• Religious traditions: Every major religion protects the right to follow conscience; many traditions have "prophetic voices" or moral witnesses who challenge power
• Philosophical tradition: Kantian ethics centers on moral autonomy; civil disobedience theory (Thoreau, Gandhi, King) shows conscience as universal moral faculty
• Legal traditions: Whistleblower protections, due process, and minority rights exist across judicial systems because societies recognize that moral witness is essential to justice

How It Shows Up in Governance

• Government: Freedom of religion protections, whistleblower protections, due process, minority rights, space for dissent and critical moral witness
• Corporate: Ethical codes and integrity mechanisms, protection for those who speak up about wrongdoing, respect for worker conscience and values
• Financial: Divestment from enterprises that violate conscience (genocide, slavery, torture), support for organizations defending conscience
• Civic: Faith communities and philosophical schools, spaces for moral debate, protection of marginalized voices, protection for those who bear moral witness

Balance and Conscience

Conscience without Balance becomes coercive. A society that honors religious conscience while suppressing critical dissent violates Balance. A corporation that respects worker beliefs while ignoring their economic needs has failed the test. Conscience must be universal—extended equally to those we agree with and those we don't. And critically, Conscience must protect the right to question and challenge, not just to believe privately.

What It Means

Wealth is not mere accumulation but stewardship—resources held in trust and circulated justly. It encompasses:

• Fair distribution: Resources available to all, not hoarded by few
• Honest exchange: Theft, fraud, and exploitation are prohibited
• Sustainable use: Resources treated as trust, not as infinite commodity to extract without limit
• Protection from poverty: Everyone has access to basic material security
• Labor justice: Those who work receive fair compensation, not exploitation
• Ecological stewardship: Creation treated as entrusted to stewardship, not owned for unlimited extraction

Why It Matters

Wealth is the material condition for human flourishing. Without resources, people cannot survive, educate children, pursue knowledge, or maintain dignity. But wealth pursued without justice corrodes everything else. Inequality breeds resentment and instability. Exploitation generates poverty and desperation. Resource extraction without regeneration destroys the future.

Every human society has recognized that resources must be circulated justly for communities to endure. Indigenous cultures developed sophisticated commons management systems that sustained communities across centuries. Religious traditions teach that wealth is not personal possession but stewardship. Modern economics recognizes that fair distribution, rule of law, and worker protection are essential to stable markets. Environmental science shows that resources are finite and must be regenerated.

Cross-Civilizational Grounding

• Indigenous wisdom: Communal resource management and circular use systems that regenerate what is consumed
• Religious traditions: Stewardship appears across Christianity (creation care), Judaism (jubilee laws), Buddhism (right livelihood), Hinduism (trusteeship)
• Economic philosophy: Adam Smith on fair wages, John Rawls on justice as fairness, modern capabilities approach all emphasize equitable distribution
• Environmental science: Circular economy principles and regenerative agriculture show how wealth can be created without ecological extraction
• Labor rights tradition: Global movement for workers' rights recognizes that fair compensation is foundational to justice

How It Shows Up in Governance

• Government: Progressive taxation, social safety nets, living wage requirements, labor protections, wealth redistribution, prevention of monopoly
• Corporate: Fair wages, benefit provision, profit-sharing, supply chain justice, prevention of exploitation
• Financial: Ethical lending, avoidance of predatory practices, investment that creates jobs and opportunity, divestment from extraction without regeneration
• Civic: Cooperative enterprises, mutual aid networks, local economic development, commons management, protection of workers' rights

Balance and Wealth

Wealth without Balance becomes exploitation. A corporation that accumulates profit while destroying ecosystems (Balance violation) or underpaying workers (Wealth unjustly distributed) has failed the test. Wealth must be circulated fairly, used sustainably, and never at the cost of Life, Progeny, Conscience, or Intellect.

The operating principle that ensures no core principle is pursued at the expense of another.

 Balance is not a sixth principle to be "protected" like the others. Rather, it is a cross-cutting, transversal principle that orchestrates the five core principles, ensuring they remain in harmony and never contradict each other. (The term al-mīzān from Islamic jurisprudence names this principle, reflecting its deep grounding in Islamic legal thought, but the principle itself is recognized across philosophical and natural systems worldwide.)

Where the five core principles define what must be protected, Balance defines how they must be held together.

How Balance Operates

Across Life and Progeny: Balance ensures that securing immediate survival doesn't undermine future generations' capacity to survive. A famine relief program that protects Life now must not deplete resources that Progeny requires.

Across Life and Wealth: Balance ensures that creating prosperity doesn't exploit vulnerable people and strip them of the conditions for survival. Growth that improves Wealth while destroying workers' Life violates Balance.

Across Intellect and Conscience: Balance ensures that advancing knowledge doesn't suppress freedom of belief, and that protecting belief doesn't suppress critical inquiry. Scientific freedom and religious freedom must coexist, not dominate each other.

Across Wealth and Progeny: Balance ensures that accumulating resources now doesn't load unsustainable debt onto future generations, and that investment in the future doesn't create poverty today.

Across all five simultaneously: Balance asks the fundamental question: Are we advancing all five principles together, or is one being sacrificed for others?

The Acid Test of Balance

Balance reveals itself most clearly in complexity—when multiple goods are in tension:

• Climate policy: Carbon reduction (good for Life and Balance) must include just transition (protecting Wealth and Progeny of affected workers)
• Technology development: AI that advances Intellect must protect Conscience (privacy, autonomy, freedom from manipulation)
• Urban development: Infrastructure investment (Wealth) must not displace vulnerable populations (Life, Progeny, Conscience)
• Education: Broadening access to knowledge (Intellect) must honor local culture and language (Conscience, Progeny)
• Resource extraction: Circulating Wealth must regenerate ecosystems (Balance with creation), not leave communities in poverty and ecological ruin (Life, Progeny violated)

In each case, Balance is not compromise—splitting the difference between justice and injustice. Rather, Balance is coherence: designing governance so all five principles advance together.

The Universal Foundation

Balance is not a human invention—it is a pattern woven into creation itself. Physics, ecology, chemistry, social systems—all operate according to equilibrium principles. Gravity balances objects. Ecosystems balance predator and prey. Water cycles move through atmosphere and ocean in proportion. Social systems that ignore balance collapse into conflict or dysfunction.

This pattern is recognized across civilizations: Chinese philosophy centers on yin-yang balance; Indigenous wisdom teaches harmony with natural cycles; Stoic philosophy emphasizes living in accordance with natural order; modern systems theory studies how balance maintains resilience. The principle is universal: transgress the balance and systems break.

How Balance Functions in Governance

Balance operates at every level:

• Across sectors: Environmental policy must integrate with labor policy, economic policy must integrate with health policy, security policy must integrate with justice policy
• Across time: Short-term decisions must not undermine long-term sustainability; political time must align with ethical time
• Across stakeholders: One group's gain cannot come at another's expense; burdens and benefits must be proportionally distributed
• Across generations: Present consumption must not foreclose future possibilities; we must live as if we will be accountable to those who come after

What Violates Balance

• Policies that advance one principle while degrading another
• Systems that concentrate benefits while distributing costs unequally
• Governance that prioritizes short-term gains over long-term stability
• Development that extracts resources without regeneration
• Innovation that solves one problem by creating another
• Growth that improves aggregate indicators while increasing inequality
• Any approach that says "later we'll fix the damage"

KEY RESEARCH PROJECTS

 Current Prototypes:

🔹 GLOBALIGN - Trade Readiness & Sustainable Export Intelligence      

Status: Demonstrated 

In Active Testing    

Focus: 4R Framework™ for ESG-compliant export strategy Ready for: SME pilots, national trade promotion agencies 

 🔹 GREEN DELIGENCE - Sustainable Finance & Portfolio ESG Integration     

Status: Demonstrated 

In Active Testing    

Focus: ESG automation across investment cycle (pre-investment → reporting)    

Ready for: Impact funds, DFIs, institutional investors --- 

HOW THEY WORK TOGETHER  

Research Integration: Exporters use Globalign (4R Framework™) → Achieve PERI™ readiness certification → Access Green Deligence-integrated financing → Sustainable value chain enabled 

Three reasons leaders choose Ethigrality

• UNIFIES competing priorities Instead of choosing between profit/purpose, growth/sustainability, efficiency/ethics— Ethigrality shows how to advance all simultaneously. 
• MEASURES coherence objectively Not a philosophy. A diagnostic framework with a tested assessment (the Coherence Test). 
• SCALES across sectors Works for governments, businesses, nonprofits, and individuals. Same principles. Different contexts. 

 

V1 — Vertical Coherence

Measures alignment across governance levels — national, regional, and local.
Detects when local plans contradict higher-level strategies (e.g., zoning vs. climate targets).
Helps ensure top-down policies cascade coherently into territorial implementation.
 

V2 — Vertical Convergence

Goes beyond compliance to evaluate cross-scale reinforcement.
Identifies where different levels of government pursue mutually supportive objectives — creating synergies instead of duplication.
Quantifies how strategies converge toward shared sustainability outcomes.
 

H1 — Horizontal Coherence

Examines intersectoral consistency across themes such as housing, mobility, health, and environment.
Highlights conflicts between departmental or policy silos that share territory but not vocabulary.
Enables integrated planning and avoids contradictory investments.
 

Q — Qualitative Coherence

Assesses the semantic and ethical quality of policy language.
Checks whether commitments are explicit, measurable, and aligned with SDG/ESG principles.
Bridges the gap between policy intention and implementation clarity.
 

T — Temporal Coherence

Aligns short-, medium-, and long-term planning horizons.
Detects time gaps where a long-term climate goal conflicts with short-term infrastructure choices.
Ensures continuity across electoral and strategic cycles.
 

F — Functional Coherence

Evaluates how policy functions — not just what it says.
Measures operational interdependence among programmes, budgets, and delivery mechanisms.
Provides a systems view linking resources, responsibilities, and results.