People walk on a path between the sun scorched grass, turned yellow-brown by a lack of rain, in Greenwich Park, near the Old Royal Naval College in south-east London on August 7, 2026, backdropped by the skyscrapers of the Canary Wharf financial district in the distance. In the southern part of England, July was the driest month ever recorded, dating back to 1836, with just 1.9 mm of rainfall, or three percent of the average figure, the Met Office said. (Photo by Toby Shepheard / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) This photograph show a field of dried out corn crops as a heatwave hits France in Saint-Dolays, western France on July 9, 2026. The French corn harvest is expected to fall by 35 per cent to nine million tonnes in 2026 the lowest level since 1980 due to a reduction in the area under cultivation and heatwaves, the government confirmed on August 7, 2026. (Photo by Fred TANNEAU / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) Dried corns stand beside a field heavily damaged by a wildfire in Chatillon-sur-Indre, central France on July 10, 2026, as a new heatwave hits France. The French corn harvest is expected to fall by 35 per cent to nine million tonnes in 2026 the lowest level since 1980 due to a reduction in the area under cultivation and heatwaves, the government confirmed on August 7, 2026. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP via Getty Images)

People walk past the Nasdaq MarketSite, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

A currency trader watches monitors near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

People walk past an electronic board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Currency traders watch monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

(FILES) A worker controls a glass at the end of a production line at the factory of French manufacturer of glassware Duralex in La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin near Orleans, centre France, on July 31, 2024. The three bidders who have submitted bids to take over the Duralex glassworks are two French entrepreneurs and a Hong Kong-based company, AFP learnt on August 7, 2026 from corroborating sources. (Photo by GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP via Getty Images)