"PARIS -- Any global climate change deal reached in Paris next month will be legally binding and have a concrete impact, France's foreign minister said on Thursday, reacting to U.S. comments that questioned the status of the accord.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was quoted as telling Wednesday's Financial Times that December's agreement was 'definitively not going to be a treaty'.

His French counterpart Laurent Fabius said on Thursday that, unlike previous negotiations, the Paris talks were not just 'hot air' and Kerry was perhaps 'confused'."

John Irish reports for Reuters November 12, 2015. [2]