Meaning of phase down | Babel Free

Definitions

To gradually reduce the size or scale of.

transitive

Examples

“We have also, for the first time, adopted text to scale up clean power and phase down dirty coal.”

“The most significant step in that direction came in last year’s Glasgow pact, which reached a pained consensus supporting a “phase down of unabated coal power”. It did not land on that language until the final moments, when China and India demanded “phase out” be watered down to “phase down”. It was an ambush that drove the exhausted Cop26 president, Alok Sharma, to tears.”

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