So, in any tragedy of the commons are we just going to accept that the only solutions are going to be to change the concrete circumstances that make it a one?
If not climate change, then there'll be other instances like this where what's good for the individual (country) is bad for the world.
A couple of years ago, this was touted as impossible - "who can impose this global tax you dream of?" was said back then as well. Why should it be impossible for countries to come together like this, with agreements to implement tariffs against countries outside the agreement?
We are subsidizing fossil fuels by deferring their actual real cost to the future. We can and should stop doing that.