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Copenhagen talks start minus a key player. No one at the Copenhagen climate talks is filling the role of the late Phil Clapp, director of the former National Environmental Trust and considered by some to be the most influential campaigner the United States offered. [News Source]

Copenhagen climate talks will hinge on economics. When world leaders gather in Copenhagen Monday for negotiations on a new agreement to combat climate change, their success or failure will ride on economics, not environmental science. [News Source]

European ambitions hit a wall of carbon. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists suggests that, far from the world’s most ambitious emissions-control plan, the EU’s position is filled with loopholes — the result of member governments succumbing to the pressure of influential industries. [News Source]

How to invest in water. Water scarcity has become a global issue as climate change alters water availability, population growth raises demand, and contamination threatens clean supplies. But what seems to be an obvious investment opportunity has challenges -- in particular, the belief that water is a public good, not a profit source. [News Source]

Tortured legacy: Canada’s oil-sands bounty. Canada has the largest crude oil deposits in the world after Saudi Arabia. But approaching the United Nations climate change conference, which takes place over the next two weeks, it has found that the bounty makes it enemies as well as friends. [News Source]

Business fumes over EPA rule. An "endangerment" finding by the EPA could pave the way for the government to require businesses that emit carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases to make costly changes in machinery to reduce emissions. [News Source]

Coal throbs at the heart of India growth engine. Although India has announced a new climate plan which identifies renewable energy such as solar power as key elements, coal remains the backbone of energy supply in a country where almost half the 1.1 billion population still has no electricity. [News Source]

Emission trading programs struggle to find traction. Without a high price for carbon emissions, most economists say, there are few prospects for the many investments needed to shift to a more sustainable energy base. [News Source]

Climate: CO2 unleashes more warming than thought: study. Carbon dioxide indirectly causes up to 50 percent more global warming than originally thought, a finding that raises questions over targets for stabilising carbon emissions over the long term, a study said on Sunday. [News Source]

Obama’s climate push plays catch-up with corporate lobbyists. Now that U.S. President Barack Obama has given fresh impetus to climate-change negotiations in Copenhagen, corporate leaders supporting an agreement to control greenhouse-gas emissions are pressing anew for action. [News Source]