Energy-efficient, all-electric hospitals significantly reduce emissions while creating healthier surroundings for patients, staff members and residents.
Decarbonization refers to the act of lowering or eliminating carbon dioxide emissions produced from human activities, especially carbon fuel combustion, such as burning coal, oil, and natural gas. Carbon dioxide acts as a greenhouse gas by trapping heat in the atmosphere, contributing significantly to global warming as well as other damaging environmental consequences.
Decarbonization involves transitioning away from fossil fuels toward cleaner forms of energy, such as wind, solar and hydropower. To do this effectively requires various strategies. One is renewable energy, using wind and solar as replacement sources of power for fossil fuels. Another is energy efficiency, optimizing buildings, transportation and industry energy use to conserve more. Then there is carbon capture storage, collecting emissions generated during industrial processes before depositing them underground. Finally there is electrification, transitioning from fossil-fuel-powered cars to electric ones and electrifying heating/cooling systems.