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… of pressures. One million species already face extinction unless action is taken to reduce the intensity of the drivers of biodiversity loss. Environment and Sustainability Strategy www.teamdoncaster.org.uk 13 The Scale of the Challenge The global carbon budget can be divided using population sizes to give national, regional and local carbon budgets. Doing so gives Doncaster…

… to live, work and visit for everyone. If Doncaster is going to make its contribution to this national and international effort, then we need to act now. Ros Jones, Elected Mayor of Doncaster Environment and Sustainability Strategy www.teamdoncaster.org.uk 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This strategy set outs how we will play our part in the national effort to reduce carbon emissions and help…

…. Keeping within the global carbon budget for greenhouse gases would give us a 66% of achieving this. The threat to use all is clear: ‘Failure to act will see a marked increase in sea levels and flooding, extreme and abrupt changes to weather patterns, crop failures, extinctions of plant, insect and animal species, and global economic disruption and crisis’. Biodiversity Crisis Biodiversity…

… a total carbon budget of around 12 million tonnes of CO2e. Once this has been spent, we need to be ‘carbon neutral’. This means reducing our emissions such that any remaining emissions can be cancelled out by carbon capture or offsetting. Forecasts suggest that, at current rates, Doncaster will use up its carbon budget in by 2027. Doncaster clearly needs to reduce its rate of emissions…

… such that our limited carbon budget lasts longer during which we can make the necessary investments and behavioural changes to transition to a lower carbon economy and way of living. The Government’s most recent biodiversity assessment indicates that the UK will not meet the Global 2020 targets it has committed to. Rapid changes in species abundance continues, with more species decreasing than…