Cocoa bean harvests in key producer nations are increasingly under threat by the climate crisis, new data shows, which is only likely to push up the price of chocolate.
The risks to crops related to extreme heat have been steadily increasing over the past two decades in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Ecuador, and Indonesia, according to modelling shared exclusively with The Independent from ClimateAi, a California-based machine learning company that models harvest outcomes. And that impact is only set to get worse as global temperatures increase.
