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Matching Africa’s natural and human capital with financial capital is vital for its sustainable development. Societe Generale is deploying the know-how and experience of its teams to design innovative financings for the continent’s emerging entrepreneurs and impactful projects.

Upon its completion in 2026, the Baltic Power wind farm will start producing electricity to power over 1.5 million households.

This stake and the resulting business partnership will support innovation and help scale up circular economy projects and solutions in the Netherlands.

InnoEnergy and Societe Generale signed a strategic long-term cooperation agreement.

Is clean hydrogen about to take off? With strong policy signals in the US and EU, institutional investors are beginning to think so.

EnBW, a leading developer in offshore wind, is building one of Germany’s largest offshore wind farms, He Dreiht, in the North Sea. Societe Generale has been advising EnBW in the context of the project for almost two years.

The island-like location makes Finland extremely dependent on regular maritime transportation. Finnlines, one of the biggest shipping companies in Finland, provides reliable sea connections to the private and public sector in the most sustainable and environmentally friendly way.

With the Champlain Hudson Power Express project

A time of challenges and opportunities for companies

What we need to do is no longer in doubt: to safeguard our future on the planet, we must drastically curb greenhouse gas emissions, reduce pollution and protect biodiversity.

The modern Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) movement began few decades ago with socially responsible investing, as asset managers reduced exposure to questionable areas, such as tobacco or alcohol.

Banking in the 80’s was a somewhat simpler business and climate change a topic for the future. Turn the clock forward three to four decades, and banking faces nothing short of a revolution as it works with multinationals, governments, and start-ups to decarbonise the global economy by 2050.

Landmark bond serves as model to finance the vast environmental and social ambitions of countries

A key player in the Asia Pacific renewable energy sector has accessed essential working capital through a pioneering green working capital loan. Societe Generale’s teams worked closely together to provide the advice and funding that made it all happen.

Societe Generale is one of the founding members of a climate-aligned finance framework to support aviation industry decarbonization. The Bank is part of a group of six global lenders committed to developing a climate-aligned finance agreement dedicated to the aviation sector.

Societe Generale’s survey reveals growing ESG importance for capital allocators

Mobilising green and sustainable finance in Asia Pacific is critical to meet the region’s energy transition and decarbonisation targets.

Telefónica, pioneer in sustainable financing within the telco industry, has recently issued a 750 million euros sustainable hybrid bond, bringing up to 3,250 million euros the total obtained by the company in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) bonds over the last two years to finance social and environmental projects.

Long-term financing is helping the continent create more sustainable services and build cities to combat climate change