Carbon removal is not a substitute for mitigation. We need both, and we need to prioritize mitigation

Coral reefs, which sustain about 25 percent of the ocean’s fish, are also highly threatened by increasing ocean temperatures—the IPCC estimates that more than 99 percent of all coral reefs will disappear if global average surface temperatures increase by 2 C.

the oceans have now absorbed about one third of the CO2 humans have emitted since industrialization began.