Heatwave engulfs London climate week as impact investors navigate 'greenhushing'
24 Jun 2026
06:00
Europe's biggest climate gathering has coincided with one of the most severe heatwaves in living memory.
It also comes as the sustainable investment community adapts to a new political and economic reality – a world where 'climate' is increasingly out of fashion.
We spoke to impact investors attending London climate week to find out more.
"This heat has huge implications," Gosbert Chagula, a general partner at Future Impact Ventures, tells Impact Loop.
It also comes as the sustainable investment community adapts to a new political and economic reality – a world where 'climate' is increasingly out of fashion.
We spoke to impact investors attending London climate week to find out more.
"This heat has huge implications," Gosbert Chagula, a general partner at Future Impact Ventures, tells Impact Loop.
London Climate Action Week (LCAW) opened this week as one of Europe's most severe heatwaves in years swept across the continent – arriving, with some irony, just as green financiers are reconsidering how much they should use the word "climate."
Red heat alerts were issued across France, Spain, and several other nations. In France, Tuesday was the hottest day ever recorded.