• 'How do we make these unbankable climate solutions bankable?'

    Five years after India and China forced COP26 to soften to “phase down” on coal, climate change activists tell Pioneers Post the fight has quietly moved to adaptation money – and the storms battering Asia's coastlines aren't waiting for it to be settled.

  • Pride is over – will social investors ensure the work continues?

    OPINION: At a time when anti-rights movements are growing stronger, why is social investment not yet kicking in at scale to help build a more sustainable LGBTQI movement?

  • Asia's impact network tells its own billionaires to step up

    In Delhi for the first time, Asia's largest philanthropy and impact investment network says that despite the region's 1,000+ billionaires, its biggest challenge is the lack of Asian money.

  • The right kind of money for the right kind of organisation: how to better align the UK's impact economy

    A new framework from Social Investment Business and New Philanthropy Capital aims to help funders, policymakers and investors better understand what market infrastructure is required to grow the impact economy.

  • ‘Young people are gaining a stronger voice in corporate decision-making’

    OPINION: Corporate decision-making typically privileges knowledge and length of service. But this model is under pressure as young people call for more influence over decisions which affect their futures, says Kate Robertson.

The Impact World This Week: 3 July 2026

This week: French savers’ commitments to social investments grow by 15%; ‘UK first’ child-lens investment fund launches in South Yorkshire; campaign launch for a social enterprise ‘new deal’ in Ireland, and more.

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The Editor's Post: HOT solutions to extreme heat

As Europe is facing an unprecedented heatwave caused by climate change, it has much to learn from the global south, with many examples of people-centred, nature-driven solutions to climate adaptation, as we've reported in our Earth Fixers series over the years.

David Lyons