carbon dioxide release

Breathing out gas

Carbon dioxide release is the discharge of CO₂ into the atmosphere, whether from natural processes like respiration and volcanic activity or human activities like burning fossil fuels.

The phrase appears frequently in climate discussions, where reducing carbon dioxide release is a central goal: The factory cut its carbon dioxide release by thirty percent.

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car exhaust · breathing · atmosphere · fossil fuels · deforestation · fermentation · respiration · smokestacks · power plant · tailpipe · outgassing · volcanic · decay · burning · exhalation · warming · bubbles · suffocation

Opposites
atmospheric carbon flow direction

carbon dioxide releasecarbon sequestration

Removing and storing atmospheric CO2

carbon capture · carbon storage · carbon sink · photosynthesis

environmental impact

carbon dioxide releasedecarbonization

Eliminating fossil fuel emissions

carbon neutrality · emissions reduction · carbon offsetting · climate mitigation · reforestation

Family

carbon, dioxide, carbons, carbonize, carbonized, carbonization, carbonate, carbonated, carbonation

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