If implemented now, active conservation measures could help to avert
this global biodiversity catastrophe, both in Jamaica and in the many other global biodiversity hotspots that are threatened by invasive species.
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«Unless
global CO2 emissions can be cut by at least 50 percent by 2050 and more thereafter, we could confront an underwater
catastrophe, with irreversible changes in the makeup of our marine
biodiversity,» said Rees.