Figueres: National interest should drive climate change laws

UPDATED 8:52 AM EST, January 15, 2013
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said nations need to develop climate change legislation based on national self-interest rather than wide-reaching "save the planet" justifications, Bloomberg reports.
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