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  • Clean, green energy exists; it is more or less unlimited and it is increasingly cheap to harvest through solar and wind farms. Why are we not converting to renewables wholesale — especially in poor countries, which tend to have abundant sunshine? A significant part of this market failure is financial, and capital markets must solve it.
  • Hopes that the recovery from the Covid-19 recession can be a green one have been widespread throughout the crisis, and no sector is more important to that aspiration than renewable energy. The industry as a whole has been well buffered from the downturn, but there are points of pain, and the post-pandemic market will be different.
  • Shares in Meyer Burger Technology, the Swiss developer of solar panel technology, surged by more than 26% on Monday morning after the company unveiled plans for a Sfr165m capital increase to accelerate its plans for an expansion its own cell and module production capacity.
  • Aker BioMarine, a Norwegian fishing company that harvests krill to be used in nutritional products, has already attracted substantial demand for its listing on Norway’s junior Merkur Market; it will look to list on Norway’s main exchange in 2021.
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    ‘Angrynomics’, a well-timed book on anger and how it relates to politics, economics and finance by Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth, is published this week. GlobalCapital spoke to Lonergan to discuss its meaning.
  • Canvest Environmental Protection Group Co, a Hong Kong-based waste-to-energy company, has returned to the loan market for a HK$1.97bn ($251.6m) unsecured deal. In an unusual move, the firm will postpone its covenant tests for the first six months. Pan Yue reports.