How to Use decarbonize in a Sentence

decarbonize

verb
  • And there are few options right now to decarbonize air travel.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The stock of things to decarbonize should get bigger every year.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Being told that our transport must decarbonize means more change.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
  • And the sun is still rising on solar, a pillar in the push to decarbonize the power grid.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 28 Dec. 2024
  • In the race to decarbonize the world by 2050, who’s going to foot the bill?
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 8 Dec. 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
  • Climate change and the global race to decarbonize have been promoted to the first tier.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • The bill contains a slew of programs to decarbonize heavy industry.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2022
  • But the idea is to use such a fuel to make hard-to-decarbonize industries carbon-neutral.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • To decarbonize all of the city’s 2 million vehicles, the city will need even more chargers than that.
    — Time, 26 July 2023
  • Today, a global consenus is forming around the need to decarbonize.
    — Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • The second leg is to decarbonize whatever products remain that have to be made.
    — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Even in the face of lots of smaller efforts to decarbonize, the disasters keep coming.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 July 2021
  • The political will to decarbonize has also become stronger over the past few years.
    — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The Paris Agreement doesn’t say how countries should decarbonize.
    — Dieter Holger, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2021
  • This is a worrying turn for an industry with a vital role in helping the world decarbonize.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Any new gas plants will likely be around for decades, long past Biden's 2035 goal to decarbonize.
    — Travis Loller, ajc, 2 July 2021
  • 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
  • With the rise of flight shame, airlines are racing to find an answer for how to decarbonize and reduce their climate impact.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • And the only way to ensure that is to rapidly decarbonize the global economy.
    — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Both are hard-to-decarbonize parts of the transportation industry, given the size of the machines.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 5 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Not everyone is sure that ClearFlame’s concept is the best way to decarbonize trucking.
    — Byian Mount, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Countries around the globe, including some of the biggest emitters, have made ambitious goals to decarbonize their economies in the coming decades.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2025

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