I hope you are wrong.
In any case, I would bet my bottom dollar that these grant programs are using Outcome Measures (OM) to report results.
FYI - OM was created by United Way to disguise wasteful spending of donation money. Now, OM is being used in almost every controversial grant program where traditional output measures would easily show waste to the taxpayers.
CO2 is plant food, they can’t live without it!
Interesting info TT, thanks.