Growthcap Impact Advisory

10/09/2026

What happend in Nepal is what scientists have been warning us about for years. A glacier collapse, a wall of water, hundreds dead, thousands missing. A country bearing the consequences of a crisis it did little to create.

This is not an isolated event. It is a symptom.

For over a decade, Swedish scientist Johan Rockström has been mapping the boundaries that keep our planet stable:he has been calling them the planetary boundaries. Nine thresholds that, if crossed, push the Earth into territory it cannot easily recover from. Climate change, biodiversity loss, freshwater, ocean acidification, deforestation. As of 2025, seven of those nine boundaries have been crossed. In his own words, 2026 shows a planet under pressure, warming fast, ice vanishing, risks rising.

When boundaries are crossed, they do not fail one by one. They interact. One tipping point triggers another in a cascade of effects, weakening the health of the entire system. The Earth is losing its capacity to absorb the effects of our actions.

And the signals keep coming. Just days ago, the UN admitted what many already knew: the 1.5°C goal set by the Paris Agreement will be breached. Their new report no longer asks how to stay below it; it asks how to limit the time we spend above it. With a strong El Niño forecast to peak in December, 2027 could break every temperature record we have.

But here is what matters: there is still light. The Earth is resilient. We know what the safe space looks like. Rockström’s framework gives us the map. The ozone layer was once a boundary we had crossed. Global cooperation brought it back.

Stability is a shared responsibility. The science is not asking for the impossible. It is asking for urgency, and for our ideas about growth, development and progress to change. The window is narrowing, but it is still open. And the capital, the solutions, and the will to act need to be there.

The time to invest in our planet’s future is now. 🌎

31/08/2026

Residents survey the damage following a flash flood in Trishuli, Nepal. [Ezra Acayan/Getty Images]

25/08/2026

After a summer of record-breaking heat, more than 50,000 people filled the streets of Stockholm to demand stronger climate action. 🌍✊

More than 280 organisations came together: from scientists and engineers to trade unions, churches, environmental groups and people from across Sweden and beyond.

At a time when the climate movement can feel fragmented, Stockholm sent a powerful message: when the climate crisis is already being felt around us, silence is not an option.

Organisers expected 10,000 people. Yet, more than 50,000 showed up. One powerful message echoed through the streets: we cannot afford to wait.

It was an inspiring day, and a powerful signal that the time to act is now.

A reminder for us that the investments we make today can help turn ambition into action, backing the solutions that can build a more sustainable future.

22/08/2026

This year, our Charlotte Salford, Founder and Managing Director of GROWTHCAP, took part in the selection committee for the World Food Forum’s Agrifood Leadership Education Programme (ALEP) on Young Women’s Empowerment.

The programme brought together an inspiring group of young women entrepreneurs from around the world, each developing practical, community-rooted projects to strengthen agrifood systems in their regions: from climate-resilient farming to food processing and rural enterprise.

This feels especially timely in 2026, the United Nations’ International Year of the Woman Farmer (IYWF), led by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a global initiative highlighting the vital roles women play in agrifood systems, food security and rural economies, while addressing persistent gender inequalities.

Supporting these young women is part of our wider commitment to empowering female entrepreneurs and strengthening the future of food and agriculture.

The participants advancing to the next phase will be announced soon, and we look forward to celebrating them, and the positive impact their work will bring for communities and the environment.

27/07/2026

07/07/2026

London Climate Week Takeaways impact Advisory

Key takeaways from London Climate Week:
• Transition plans are maturing — companies are moving from pledges to implementation.
• Nature enters the boardroom — biodiversity and ecosystem services are becoming strategic priorities.
• Climate tech accelerates — AI and data are unlocking new pathways for decarbonisation.
• Finance shifts — investors demand transparency, impact metrics and credible roadmaps.

At Growthcap, we help organisations navigate this evolving landscape with clarity, ambition and measurable impact.

Climate action is accelerating — and so is the need for trusted guidance.

01/07/2026

Investing isn’t only about returns anymore. With the climate crisis and rising social challenges, people increasingly want their money to create real environmental and social change, and finance is shifting to meet them.

On 9–10 June, Europe’s impact investing community met in Brussels for Impact Days, hosted by Impact Europe.

The field is growing fast: European impact investing has more than doubled in two years, from €80bn to €190bn. And the conversation has grown up with it.

One idea ran through the whole event: systems change. The goal is no longer to fund good projects one by one. It’s to change the bigger system around them: the policies, the markets, and the money.

Four shifts stood out:
Small money, unlocking big money. How do you use public and charitable funds to pull in much larger private investment? It’s called blended finance, and it only works if investors take the riskier first step, not just the safe parts.
The money already exists; it just needs freeing. A lot of what we need is sitting in pension funds, insurers and foundations. The work is unlocking it, and rethinking old assumptions about what those investors are “allowed” to do.
Fixing the plumbing. Less visible, but it matters: reshaping how funds and rules are built, so impact investing can actually grow.
Proving it’s real. Measuring impact (not just claiming it) is becoming the real test. Yet the data is humbling: only about 17% of investors actually track whether they’re changing the system. We talk about it more than we measure it.
In the end, it’s simple: capital is the tool, but people are the point. Money is being judged not just by what it earns, but by who it helps and what it changes.

That’s the thread we follow at Growthcap.

Drawing on Impact Europe’s Impact Days 2026 programme and insights (impacteurope.net).

08/06/2026

Happy World Ocean Day, 💦 we are reminded that the health of our oceans is inseparable from the health of our societies.
We started Growthcap, to support organisations that place environmental and social impact at the centre of their strategy — because protecting our oceans means protecting communities, livelihoods, and our shared future 🌊

06/06/2026

Buona Giornata Nazionale - Glad National Dag 🇸🇪 Thank you

20/05/2026

Happy 😊 Bee 🐝 Day biodiversity celebration with a bee hive art installation API-LOGO by Arte, Science e Ricerca collaboration & .italia photo exhibition in the Botanical Gardens in Roma.