These expectations might include capacity building, consolidating the effectiveness of existing conservation actions (not just establishing new ones), and other such activities that have less concrete or prestigious outputs, yet contribute towards meaningful outcomes.
He does not think the industry has "the capacity" to consolidate, not least because of the regulatory framework and problems with companies still operating final-salary pension schemes.
Allman says that bigger cities have had the capacity to consolidate their facilities – Manchester has closed five older leisure centres recently but built three new ones – while smaller district councils lack alternative options and are struggling nationwide to keep facilities open.
Strengthening capabilities for producing and applying knowledge through direct engagement with affected populations and decision-makers provides a fertile basis for consolidating capacities to act on a larger scale.
Underlying the GE strategy is the fear of what Immelt calls "commodity damnation," where excess capacity, intensified foreign competition, consolidating business channels, and Internet-driven productivity gains push down prices and place a premium on companies' ability to innovate and differentiate products.
If the deal does go through, Micron could consolidate capacity, which would help support the price of chips.
Faced with rising fuel costs, and losing tens of billions of dollars in the last decade, airline executives argued that the only way to survive was to consolidate capacity.
While the project has provided learners a first step toward literacy, it has overall been insufficient to consolidate capacity.
Where institutional capacity is lacking, better outcomes may result from consolidating commercial, policy, and regulatory functions until such capacity has further developed.
Paper companies are consolidating to reduce production capacity as prices rebound.
