How to Use decarbonize in a Sentence

decarbonize

verb
Definition of decarbonizenext
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • To decarbonize all of the city’s 2 million vehicles, the city will need even more chargers than that.
    — Time, 26 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The aviation sector is one of the hardest to decarbonize.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many more will go to consumers able to afford the still considerable up-front costs of decarbonizing their homes and cars.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Today, a global consenus is forming around the need to decarbonize.
    — Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Changes like these — whether at the policy or tech level — won’t happen overnight, so some renters have grown creative to decarbonize their homes on their own.
    — Yessenia Funes, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • That presents some obvious problems for the Big Three’s E.V. prospects, not to mention this country’s hopes of decarbonizing.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In recent years, the state has rolled out pledges to decarbonize transit and housing, and prepare for the effects of global warming that can’t be prevented.
    — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Yet other aspects of Amazon’s business—like all those trucks and planes—were not going to decarbonize anytime soon.
    — Andrew Blum, Time, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The transition, of course, is all about decarbonizing the economy.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The purpose is to assist other global wineries with a roadmap and strategies to decarbonize the wine sector as soon as possible.
    — Liz Thach, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Prominent among them is the use of ammonia as fuel, which could help decarbonize the shipping sector.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
  • In the past couple decades, scientists and engineers have come up with lots of ways to rapidly decarbonize the planet—but some ideas are better than others.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2023
  • One analysis suggested that, by the end of the decade, the bill would reduce yearly emissions by forty-four per cent, and would more than double the rate at which the U.S. economy could decarbonize.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
  • There are going to be industries, such as cement, that are all but impossible to decarbonize in the near-term, said Herzog.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 11 May 2023
  • As the world races to decarbonize for a livable climate future, few sectors face greater upheaval than global trucking.
    — Federico Guerrini, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Many of the achievements to emerge were piecemeal, such as announcements that more countries would join the First Movers Coalition, which aims to decarbonize the heavy industry and transport sectors.
    — Jamey Keaten, ajc, 26 May 2022
  • The clean-burning gas is forecast to play a central role in decarbonizing heavy industries such as steel and chemicals.
    — Will Horner, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2023

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