Big news from Paris. The largest assemblage of heads of state opened the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), which surpassed expectations to deliver the historic Paris Agreement ("L'accord de Paris") to globally reduce climate change and sent a signal to investors that the closing of the fossil fuel era has begun.

What was it like to be there, to witness history? Paris, so horribly stricken, received a lift in spirit from the promise of this agreement, negotiated and adopted by consensus in France's greatest city.

Quinton Zondervan was there, our January 14th BASEA Forum speaker, and will tell us what it was like and what the U.S. agreed to.

Zondervan sees carbon pricing, at the federal and state level, embodied in our nation's transition to the renewable energy economy envisioned in the accord. Locally, he will relate how the U.S. Congress's multi-year extension of the Business Energy Investment Tax Credit (ITC) is reinvigorating a successful solar deployment program in Cambridge.

Join us at the Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum for a personal view of the global Paris Agreement from local climate activist Quinton Zondervan.