Cop27: coral conservation groups alarmed over ‘catastrophic losses’

World faces stark reality that there is no safe limit of global warming for coral reefs', says researcher

You don't have to travel far from the sprawling convention center that's staging the UN climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to see what's at stake. This coastal resort town is fringed by an ecosystem seemingly facing worldwide cataclysm from global heating - coral reefs.

As negotiators haggle over an agreement that may or may not maintain a goal to restrain global temperature rise to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the nearby corals face a more brutally unyielding scenario.