LONDON — Events at London Climate Action Week — one of the world’s biggest gatherings of green campaigners — have been disrupted by the heat waves sweeping across the U.K. and much of Europe.
Organizers said some of the approximately 1,000 events planned across the capital have been called off, amid “one of the hottest periods ever in the U.K.”
“We are already seeing events being canceled as much of London’s building stock cannot function,” Nick Mabey, CEO of climate campaign think tank E3G, and the founder of London Climate Action Week, told POLITICO. “This is a dramatic demonstration of the reality of climate change and how it threatens our economy, way of life and cultural heritage.”
A panel event scheduled for Wednesday morning at the London School of Economics, focused on “improving governance” of “extreme heat”, was canceled “due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the U.K. Met Office.”
