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Thick smog blanketed New Delhi on Monday after Diwali firecrackers, with the citywide air quality index at 370 in the morning and several monitoring stations recording readings above 400, in the severe band.

Britain is expected to cut its 2030 electric vehicle sales target from 80 percent to around 60 percent, the Guardian reported, but Prime Minister Andy Burnham insisted on Monday that no decision has been taken and the reports are speculation.

Brazil's National Energy Policy Council approved guidelines for a national roadmap to cut fossil-fuel dependence, plus the National Energy Transition Plan and four other measures.

ANZ has formally ruled out directly financing new oil and gas projects or the pipelines built for them, becoming the last of Australia's big four banks to close the door on funding for the Beetaloo Basin gas export plan.

The World Meteorological Organization's State of the Climate Update 2026, released as COP31 opened, puts January–September warming at 1.47°C above pre-industrial levels, with a strong El Niño set to push heat further into 2027.

The EU and UK are in the final stages of a deal to link their carbon emissions trading systems, with negotiators having resolved caps, supply controls and free allowances and only the treatment of financial derivatives outstanding; an announcement is expected at the 20 November summit.

COP31 opened in Antalya with a dedicated Health Day as the WHO launched the Antalya Initiative for Health Resilience, a voluntary initiative to make health systems climate-resilient.

Five people were killed on Sunday evening when a rain-weakened sandbank collapsed onto tents in Deir al-Balah, the first deaths in the winter storm that flooded about 70,000 tents across Gaza; when the flooding was first reported a day earlier, no fatalities had been reported.

Amnesty International has warned world leaders at COP31 to break fossil fuels' grip and deliver a rapid phase-out, singling out summit leaders Türkiye and Australia for continuing to expand coal and gas.

A federal judge refused to dismiss the NAACP's Clean Air Act lawsuit over gas turbines powering xAI's Colossus data centre near Memphis, clearing the case to proceed against the artificial intelligence company.

A record 117mm of rain fell in 75 minutes at Kadima in the Sharon region on 7 November, flooding towns across central Israel, submerging cars in Even Yehuda, closing two Ayalon Highway lanes near the La Guardia Interchange and cutting power in Gan Yavne.

The petroleum ministry says all 893 E20 petrol samples tested across 27 states and union territories met the IS 17021 standard, rejecting Karnataka's claim that some outlets sold petrol with 26-31% ethanol.