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- verb Alternative spelling of
decarbonize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove carbon from (an engine)
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Examples
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Carbon capture and storage has been promoted as a means to "decarbonise" fossil fuels by removing and storing the CO2 during the production of energy.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2008
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It's a very key point that nine professional bodies of engineering in 2011 issued a declaration which said we have every technology we need to fully decarbonise the global economy by 2050.
Rebecca Novick: Global Warming: The Un-tellable Story Rebecca Novick 2012
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It's a very key point that nine professional bodies of engineering in 2011 issued a declaration which said we have every technology we need to fully decarbonise the global economy by 2050.
Rebecca Novick: Global Warming: The Un-tellable Story Rebecca Novick 2012
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The Green Investment Bank Commission estimates that up to £1trillion is needed by 2030 to upgrade and decarbonise Britain's infrastructure – investment on a scale not seen since reconstruction after the second world war.
Pension funds must be more vocal if they are to be good stewards of our cash 2010
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It also wants an estimated £40bn from sale of permits to pollute under the European trading scheme from 2012 to 2020 to be ringfenced to support the drive to decarbonise Britain's economy.
Green setback for UK as British power supplied by renewable sources falls 2010
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Over the next decade Europe will have to meet the competitive challenge of the emerging economies, decarbonise its economies and create tens of millions of jobs.
Mandelson downplays Van Rompuy and Ashton – and bigs up the EU's financial influence 2009
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But they must be vigorously and widely implemented to achieve the societal transformation required to decarbonise economies.
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Over the next decade Europe will have to meet the competitive challenge of the emerging economies, decarbonise its economies and create tens of millions of jobs.
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But China will not commit to decarbonise its economy unless the US accepts a binding and ambitious emissions reduction target.
Nick Mabey: Sorting Blinks From Winks In The Copenhagen End Game 2009
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We need ways to address the existing building stock, at an individual building and urban scale, to reduce energy demand and decarbonise the energy supply.
Phillip Jones: Zero Carbon Design and Architecture, But How Low is Zero? 2009
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