A hop, skip, and a jump around the world

🌎 More than 120 world leaders arrived in Egypt for COP27, a two-week climate conference that kicked off yesterday. In a World Leaders Summit later today, heads of state and government leaders from around the world will each deliver five-minute addresses outlining what they want from the climate summit. Which began around the same time a new UN report was published that found the past eight years were the warmest on record going back to 1850.

🇮🇷 New protests erupted in Iran on Sunday across a dozen-plus northern cities. Mass anti-government protests, inspired by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police, are entering their seventh straight week, with no signs of slowing down. 318 protesters have been killed in the unrest as of Saturday, including 49 minors, per activist HRANA news agency. Thirty-eight members of Iran’s security forces have also been killed.

🇮🇳 Toxic smog engulfed India’s capital city of New Delhi on Friday, halting daily life for ~20 million residents. The city’s average air quality index, which measures the concentration of particularly harmful pollutants in the air, crossed 470 on Friday – well above the 300 threshold classified as “hazardous.” Many parts of New Delhi even recorded an AQI of more than 600. Local authorities closed schools and businesses for the day, and said they’re considering a system where vehicles with odd and even-numbered license plates would be banned from operating on alternating days.