World leaders opened New York’s Climate Week on Monday, running alongside the UN General Assembly, in a year marked by extreme heat across Europe and the United States, wildfires in Africa and a record-breaking El Niño, according to The Guardian. Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, gave the opening keynote, and Iceland’s prime minister, Kristrún Frostadóttir, closed the day with her country’s geothermal transition. UK foreign secretary Ed Miliband told AFP the climate crisis is a job for heads of state.