'It's clearly under-invested': Why VCs are turning to adaptation solutions

Arturo Benito, Impact Bridge, Heidi Lindvall, Pale Blue Dot and Svein Ove Langeland, Momentum Partners. Wildfires in LA in the background. Photo: AP/TT.
30 jan. 2025
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Arturo Benito, Impact Bridge, Heidi Lindvall, Pale Blue Dot and Svein Ove Langeland, Momentum Partners. Wildfires in LA in the background. Photo: AP/TT.
With extreme heat, wildfires and flooding, impact investors are increasingly turning to climate adaptation projects. What does this mean for the impact space? Impact Loop picked the brains of three of the sector's leading investors to find out.

Climate adaptation focusses on the technologies and projects needed to adapt to already present climate effects.

Funding for this field (as well as the related concept of resilience) has long been in discussion at the global government level – namely at successive COP conferences – but is only recently emerging as an area of interest for impact-focussed investors.

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