How to break the climate dealock.

The article discusses international debates regarding climate change mitigation. Particular focus is given to U.S. resistance to a government-led solution to climate change, which the author says is preventing an international agreement from being reached. It is suggested that free markets will not naturally arrive at a solution and that free-market economics has not been able to account for the environmental and social harms of carbon emissions. Carbon taxation and the government funding of technological innovations are also discussed.