Over the next decade, however, the agency plans to regulate virtually all sources of greenhouse gases, imposing efficiency and emissions requirements on nearly every industry and every region.
The King began to make arrangements for passage with friendly rulers around the Levant, imposing efficiency savings on the royal household and arranging for ships and transport: he appeared almost over-eager to take part.
What inevitably follows is a rush to impose "efficiencies" and "synergy" to make the new behemoths pay off.
But France and other countries have learnt that governments and consumers find it easier to impose efficiency and best behaviour on private companies than on their own bureaucracies.
Using archival methods, he shows how early foundations' efforts to impose efficiency-minded reforms on colleges and universities fell short, before they embraced the ethos of student development and institutional autonomy by the mid-century.
(The next largest decline was Lincoln, down only 10.1%.) Ever since Ford acquired Jaguar in 1989, it has struggled mightily to improve sales while still imposing economic efficiencies.
Half of the savings will come from imposing an efficiency dividend on universities and reducing discounts for early fee repayments, with another $1.2bn saved by converting student start-up scholarships into HECS-HELP style loans.
The new analysis, Paltsev says, clearly shows that instead of imposing mileage efficiency standards, "there is a much better way to achieve the relevant targets" for cutting emissions from the transportation sector.
And, once in place, they are hard to abolish.A second way for governments to discourage emissions is by setting standards for products and processes (such as imposing energy-efficiency requirements for buildings, or banning incandescent lightbulbs).
He will impose purchasing efficiencies, he said, and cut waste, corruption and patronage.
