phase down

present singular third person phases down · participle present phasing down · participle past phased down · past phased down

1. transitiveTo gradually reduce the size or scale of.

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

   2021 November 13, Alok Sharma, “Alok Sharma’s remarks at the COP26 Closing Plenary”, in 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Government of the United Kingdom, retrieved 13 Nov 2021

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   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.

   2022 November 17, Adam Morton, “Getting rid of fossil fuels at a climate summit is harder than you’d think”, in The Guardian, →ISSN