Why this impact team is trekking for a month across Greenland
24 apr. 2025
08:58
The Arctic used to be one of the main focal points of the climate crisis. Amid worsening conditions elsewhere around the world, and massive political upheavals diverting funding from climate projects, a team of investors and entrepreneurs are setting off to put the Arctic back on the map.
“Our biggest challenge is we've probably overpacked,” Lexi Novitske laughs, from a room in the small town of Kangerlussuaq in Western Greenland.
Novitske, general partner at Norrsken22, an Africa-focussed tech growth fund with a big impact focus, is speaking to Impact Loop from Kangerlussuaq alongside Daphne de Jong, founder of Ven, which specialises in insurance underwriting for the climate transition (think new energy infrastructure, green data centres, green hydrogen). They and their team are about to set off on a one month, 1,500km snowkite trek across Greenland.