At the 2026 Financial Street Forum annual meeting held on October 21, during the forum themed "Building and Innovating Catastrophe Risk Management Systems in the Context of Climate Change — Technology Convergence, Ecological Co-prosperity," Wang Yawei, Director of the Disaster Reduction Services Department of the China Meteorological Administration, stated that a super El Niño event formed in September this year.
This El Niño event is expected to reach its peak in late autumn to early winter this year, causing significant impacts on agriculture, energy, and various other industries, as well as on global commodity trading.
The event is described as the strongest since systematic monitoring began.
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