How to Use decarbonize in a Sentence

decarbonize

verb
Definition of decarbonizenext
  • In the race to decarbonize the world by 2050, who’s going to foot the bill?
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But the race to decarbonize just took a huge leap and it’s all thanks to a new type of train.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 Mar. 2022
  • So, where does this leave the US's efforts to decarbonize?
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 July 2024
  • Democrats in the Senate passed a bill that would, for the first time ever, use Congress’s power to push the U.S. to decarbonize.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The stock of things to decarbonize should get bigger every year.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Any new gas plants will likely be around for decades, long past Biden's 2035 goal to decarbonize.
    — Travis Loller, ajc, 2 July 2021
  • The left needs to make the case that by helping to decarbonize the economy, the IRA is protecting whales.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In the quest to decarbonize the world, one element gets a lot of hype: hydrogen.
    — Marta Abbà, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Climate change and the global race to decarbonize have been promoted to the first tier.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2021
  • To decarbonize all of the city’s 2 million vehicles, the city will need even more chargers than that.
    — Time, 26 July 2023
  • That gives the sector a larger footprint than most countries—and it’s one of the hardest to decarbonize.
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Climate safety requires that the US and the rest of the world decarbonize the energy system.
    — Jeffrey Sachs, CNN, 20 July 2021
  • This is incredible progress at a time when there is no place for laggards in the race to decarbonize.
    — María Mendiluce, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Even in the face of lots of smaller efforts to decarbonize, the disasters keep coming.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 July 2021
  • But the world is running out of time to address climate change, and more rooftop solar will decarbonize our grid faster.
    — David Lappen, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Both are hard-to-decarbonize parts of the transportation industry, given the size of the machines.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The aviation sector is one of the hardest to decarbonize.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Doing so would run counter to Biden’s goal of decarbonizing the nation’s electric sector by the middle of the next decade.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • The Paris Agreement doesn’t say how countries should decarbonize.
    — Dieter Holger, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, switching from coal to gas can cut greenhouse gas emissions by about half, and therefore help to decarbonize economies.
    — Ralph Izzo For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 7 June 2022
  • Not everyone is sure that ClearFlame’s concept is the best way to decarbonize trucking.
    — Byian Mount, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The bill contains a slew of programs to decarbonize heavy industry.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2022
  • Watching how this switch plays out in early adopters of wind power like Germany may help inform how the rest of us decarbonize.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2022
  • That also just requires the price to come down for EVs, to get them into more garages, and to decarbonize as rapidly as possible.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
  • But Ghosh, mulling over why the world has been so slow to decarbonize, thinks that this explanation is incomplete.
    — Olufemi O. Taiwo, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Being told that our transport must decarbonize means more change.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The political will to decarbonize has also become stronger over the past few years.
    — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
  • And some of the world’s biggest companies are planning to use this data to decarbonize their supply chains.
    — Michelle Ma, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Cooperating on green trade initiatives would magnify the investments that both India and the United States are already making to decarbonize their economies.
    — Trevor Sutton, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Before coming to customers’ doorsteps, packages travel by airplane, cargo ship, and/or long-haul truck—transport methods that are both notoriously dirty and tricky to decarbonize.
    — Molly Taft, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2024

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