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It highlights the transition to a green economy, the integration of 'working for' employment programmes to provide 5 million person-days of work in 2011/12, and the fight against rhino poaching. 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If current emission rates continue, acidity could increase by 150-200 percent by 2100, a rate of change ten times faster than any event in the last 65 million years.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002630#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Ocean warming is increasing the intensity of tropical cyclones. One study found the percentage of the strongest storms (category 4 and 5) rose from less than 20 percent in 1970–1974 to approximately 35 percent in 2000–2004 across all major ocean basins.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002630#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Hypoxia, or 'dead zones', are expanding due to eutrophication from agricultural runoff and global warming. 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Rebuilding these stocks over 10 years could generate a resource rent gain of US$ 66 billion per year, with a net present value of between US$ 660 and US$ 1,430 billion.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002630#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"More than 40 percent of the marine environment is impacted by a combination of stressors. These can be global (warming, acidification, deoxygenation) or local/regional (overfishing, pollution, coastal hypoxia), and their interactions can be synergistic, meaning the combined effect is greater than the sum of individual parts.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sei-002630#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The economic cost of inaction regarding ocean services is significant. 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