Barack Obama will look back on 2015 as a banner year for climate change in his final State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. [The Guardian]

Energy stocks started well this week as the price of oil turned higher after sliding to its lowest level in 12 years the day before. [ABC]

Global surpluses have left corn and soybean prices below the cost of production with the amount of agricultural debt relative to income ballooning to the highest in three decades. [Bloomberg]