Political turmoil threatens COP21 implementation
US President Barack Obama, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping have issued a statement on climate change. (PA)
The world’s largest climate change agreement, which is scheduled to be signed in New York on Friday, faces a number of economic and political stumbling blocks before it can be implemented.
"Countries may have over-reached themselves in the enthusiasm around COP21 and [may] now be worrying about their ability to meet their intended targets – particularly in light of changing political or economic circumstances," Hannah Logan, an energy and infrastructure lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright, told Interfax Natural Gas Daily.