However, it has now emerged that the delay in EDF taking the final investment decision on Hinkley is not just because of well-publicised financing concerns in France, but also because there is no legally binding contract with Beijing.
Its size was scaled back at the boatyard, because of financing difficulties and concerns that it could not enter the smaller, more exclusive ports it was promising to prospective residents.
And the mere fact of experiments going ahead might lead people to assume that geoengineering could easily be made feasible, and thus to give up on reducing carbon emissions.Following the moneyPerhaps because of such concerns, financing bodies have not yet shown much appetite for geoengineering experiments.
BHP later abandoned the bid, at the height of the credit crunch, because of concerns about financing its target's vast debts.
Beijing, Paris and Toronto received encouraging evaluations in May in a report issued by the I.O.C. that essentially eliminated Istanbul and Osaka, Japan, because of concerns over financing and infrastructure.
Mr. Obama signed the treaty in April 2010 with Mr. Medvedev, but it took nearly 8 months for the agreement to be approved by the United States Senate, where Senator Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, held up approval because of concerns about financing for nuclear research.
