This year's Easter eggs will much more expensive than last year's. The reason climate change. Extreme weather patterns have growing cocoa more challenging. Cocoa beans are to make chocolate. Around 70 per cent of the world's cocoa beans are in West Africa. Recent heatwaves, droughts and heavy rain in Ghana and the Ivory Coast have greatly the amount of cocoa beans . Temperatures have four degrees higher than normal. The Reuters news agency said cocoa prices have more than compared to this time last year. Amber Sawyer, an energy and climate analyst, said farmers in West Africa were, " in the face of both extreme heat and rainfall".
Chocolate eggs are as gifts for the Christian holiday of Easter, which the resurrection of Jesus. Traditionally, people and painted chicken eggs. Wikipedia says chocolate eggs first at the court of Louis XIV in France in 1725. In 1873, the English chocolate company J.S. Fry the first hollow chocolate egg, similar to the ones people give today. Wikipedia says: "In Western cultures, the giving of chocolate eggs is now commonplace, with 80 million Easter eggs in the UK alone." However, climate change is it more difficult to grow the cocoa beans. Climate analysts say we to do more to fossil fuel emissions if we a steady supply of cocoa and chocolate.
