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  • verb Present participle of decarbonise.

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Examples

  • They say "decarbonising" the UK will help create hundreds of thousands of jobs, raise skills and improve competitiveness.

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2009

  • 'green collar jobs', 'decarbonising' and 'financial incentives' directed at 'stakeholders'.

    Slugger O'Toole Jason Walsh 2010

  • They also have to attack systemic issues: the global south will not pick up the ecological bill of the global north; decarbonising the world economy, making sustainability the agenda rather than an item on it, are massive political tasks beyond the reach of individual campaigns.

    In praise of ... evergreens | Editorial 2011

  • He acknowledges this by setting his date for decarbonising the electricity supply through renewables and efficiency alone at 2050, while the Committee on Climate Change is seeking to do so, through nuclear, renewables, efficiency and some carbon capture and storage, by 2030.

    Greens must not prioritise renewables over climate change | George Monbiot and Chris Goodall 2011

  • What is missing is recognition of the scale of technical challenges involved in decarbonising Britain's energy supply infrastructure.

    Letters: Renewable energy's engineering challenge 2011

  • The MPs state the current proposals for electricity market reform put too much emphasis on building new gas plants to fill the gap left by the closure of about 19GW of nuclear, oil-fired and coal-fired plants by 2020, and not enough on decarbonising the power sector over the course of the 2020s in which gas without CCS will have "only a very limited role".

    Renewables could be UK's major power source by 2030: WWF 2011

  • This was forcibly restated in last week's report from the International Energy Agency, which referred to the extreme climatic urgency of decarbonising our industries and economies.

    The wellbeing agenda isn't navel-gazing, it's innovation and survival | Pat Kane 2011

  • The committee highlighted offshore wind as having the lowest cost path to decarbonising the electricity grid and meeting the UK government's target to source 15% of its power from renewable sources by 2020.

    UK warned not to abandon low-carbon technology drive 2010

  • The global economy is not decarbonising - it is recarbonising.

    Re-thinking Kyoto... GayandRight 2008

  • For while we can do our best to make an estimate of the cost of substantially decarbonising the world economy, we have no idea of what benefit that will bring in terms of a lower mean global temperature than would otherwise be the case.

    Archive 2007-11-01 GayandRight 2007

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