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Exclusive Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh: We need urgent climate action to save coral reefs

Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh: We need urgent climate action to save coral reefs

  • If we heat the planet by 2°C, we lose 99% of coral reefs; we are now on track for at least 2.3°C. For coral reefs, every fraction of a degree is drastic
  • Pugh, UN Patron of the Oceans, visiting Neom to swim into the Red Sea, says: ‘I would love to swim with Saudi swimmers’
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