Arlington To Hold Community Forum on Carbon Pricing

Arlington is going to hold a community forum on carbon pricing in the state of Massachusetts.

It will be held on Dec. 3 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at First Parish Unitarian Universalist of Arlington, 630 Massachusetts Ave.

The forum is presented by 350 Massachusetts for a Better Future in association with nine co-sponsoring organizations.

Several experts in the field will explain carbon pricing and how it is a key way to curb emissions that would be fair to the state’s citizenry and economy alike.

Forum cosponsors are the Massachusetts Sierra Club, Arlington and Belmont chapters of League of Women Voters, Green Cambridge, Sustainable Arlington, Sustainable Belmont, Green Sanctuary Committee at First Parish UU of Arlington and Arlington and Belmont Mothers Out Front.

After opening remarks by Launa Zimmaro on why and how the League of Women Voters is taking action on carbon pricing, Quinton Zondervan will show a short animated film about carbon pricing that he made with the Climate Action Business Association. Then economist and Arlington resident Marc Breslow will explain how carbon pricing works and why it is increasingly widely-accepted. Finally, Cathy Buckley, the Massachusetts Sierra Club chair, will wrap things up with thoughts on why putting a price on carbon is “the most sensible, sane thing we can do to protect our quality of life and our habitat here on Earth.”

They will field questions and comments for the second half of the program. The evening will end with a half-hour conversation with the experts and refreshments.

Doors will open at 7 p.m.