Daily Current Affairs|7 September 2026

The summit brought together more than 300 business and institutional leaders.

It launched 12 SDG-linked joint actions and partnerships covering areas such as green mining, carbon-footprint standards, biodiversity, sustainable transport, ocean protection and women’s microenterprises.

Two expert groups were created on sustainable energy and sustainable digital infrastructure.

The new note replaces the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II with King Charles III.

It uses a vertical design, only the second Canadian banknote to do so.

The reverse features the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France.

The banknote also includes floral symbols of Canada’s provinces and territories and a window featuring plants selected with Indigenous input.

The new notes are scheduled to enter circulation in February 2027.

A map projection converts the curved surface of Earth onto a flat map; every projection introduces some distortion.

The Mercator projection, created for navigation, greatly enlarges areas near the poles—making places such as Greenland appear far larger relative to equatorial regions such as Africa.

The Equal Earth projection is an equal-area projection, designed so that countries and continents are shown in more accurate relative size.

The source highlights that Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland, despite their misleading appearance on many Mercator maps.