Welcome to Net Zero, your daily industry brief on clean energy and Canadian-resource politics. The LeadThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has certified a 38 C (100.4 F) reading in Verkhoyansk, Russia, as the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic. The temperature, which is “more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic,” was recorded on June 20, 2020, during a heat wave that swept across Siberia. “This new Arctic record is one of a series of observations reported to the WMO Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes that sound the alarm bells about our changing climate,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement. InternationallyThe EU is expected to introduce on Wednesday a second set of proposals to cut carbon emissions and to put the bloc on track for net-zero emissions by 2050.

Source: CBC News December 15, 2021 17:02 UTC