An official at the Japan Meteorological Agency said El Nino could be a factor. Another theory cited was that seasonal southward movement of cold air from the Arctic was weak andย unsustained.
โIt’s a bit of stretch to link this directly to global warming ,โ he said. โBut the winter was very warm, forย sure.โ
Corporate pledges to fight deforestation by turning degraded pasture into cropland seen boosting demand for harmful chemical inputs.
As the New York-based firm was preparing to work on the climate summit, it was also pushing for Brazilian oil and gas distributor Vibra Energia to help power it.
Trade groups lobbied ministers to promote a source of energy linked to massive environmental harms at the U.N. climate conference.
Agribusiness companies generate huge quantities of greenhouse gas pollution โ and PR companies help them obscure it.
