decarbonize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere by the activities of (a household, industry, country, etc.).
Our expertise is in designing new ways to decarbonize our economy, using solar energy and renewable carbon to replace fossil fuels.
verb (used without object)
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Present
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decarbonizesimple
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decarbonizessimple
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have decarbonizedperfect
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has decarbonizedperfect
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am decarbonizingprogressive
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are decarbonizingprogressive
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is decarbonizingprogressive
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have been decarbonizingperfect progressive
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has been decarbonizingperfect progressive
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decarbonizedsimple
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had decarbonizedperfect
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was decarbonizingprogressive
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were decarbonizingprogressive
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had been decarbonizingperfect progressive
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Etymology
Origin of decarbonize
Example Sentences
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“Currently available SAF supply does not meet global airline demand for even one week,” Delta Air Lines told investors earlier this year, also asserting SAF is “the most promising lever known today” to decarbonize flight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
"There is a global race to increase hydrogen availability in order to decarbonize and reduce the costs of the existing hydrogen economy," says Sherwood Lollar.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026
Clean hydrogen, a fuel that was expected to become a big part of America’s push to decarbonize, appears to be dead for now.
From Barron's ● Dec. 10, 2025
“But there’s a good chance that by then, demand for gas in South Korea will have fallen alongside the broader push to decarbonize, which will lead to oversupply and depressed prices,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
The lungs will not decarbonize and purify the blood with foul air, that has been breathed over and over and lost its oxygen.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various
Nordhaus said if the rate at which the economy has decarbonized since 1970 continues, the world will hit net zero by 2080.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
For the sake of a decarbonized society, I totally agree that we need more electronic vehicles and we need to produce them more, and that gasoline should be abandoned as fast as possible.
From Salon ● May 3, 2024
Plastics, ubiquitous in the modern world, cannot be decarbonized because they are made of carbon-based molecules.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024
The rapid development of more diverse sources of protein would also support the world’s transition to decarbonized food systems.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 12, 2023
Annealed steel is steel which has been soft 26ened without being decarbonized.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by Luff, John N.
GE Vernova is also investing an “immense amount” of capital into decarbonizing gas by capturing carbon emitted from gas production and injecting it back into cavities in the ground, Strazik said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
Launched in 2022, it focuses on investing in decarbonizing heavy industry and developing sources of clean energy—areas where the firm had previously invested but didn’t have a stand-alone strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
“We can do both. We must do both. The $500 million that we’re celebrating today, that’s why it’s such a big deal. It’s going to make an extraordinary impact on decarbonizing the heavy-duty sectors.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2024
Independent experts say Paris appears to be decarbonizing in the systematic ways businesses do: Calculate total emissions, then start cutting, including myriad small CO2 savings that add up significantly.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
Charred leather is the best annealing material for high-carbon steel, because it prevents decarbonizing taking place.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)
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