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decarbonization

American  
[dee-kahr-buhn-uhz-ay-shuhn, -ahyz-ay-shuhn] / diˌkɑr bən əzˈeɪ ʃən, -ˌaɪzˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

  1. the act, process, or result of decarbonizing.


Example Sentences

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The group estimates that DWR’s decarbonization efforts will cost its members $1.5 billion through 2045.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

The public is “overwhelmed with these sorts of plans now for decarbonization: ‘This by 2030,’ ‘this by 2050,’ ” said Roxana Shafiee, an environmental science policy researcher at Harvard University.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

With companies and countries setting decarbonization targets, that was seen as a good reason to invest and buy those products, even though they were likely to be more expensive than the regular product.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

The package is an initial step to creating a more pragmatic and flexible pathway to align decarbonization with competitiveness and resilience objectives, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

This process of decarbonization, or some modification of it, has successfully held the field against all so-called, direct processes up to the present time.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various