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According to the European Environment Agency*, the transport sector is responsible for nearly a quarter of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions.

On 19th January 2024, Societe Generale and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, signed a Collaboration Framework Agreement to accelerate their support for sustainable finance projects.

With the "Solar Pack" offer, Societe Generale supports its corporate and institutional clients in the energy transition of the African continent.

X-Elio, a global leader in sustainable energy development, was recently supported by Societe Generale to finance three photovoltaic solar energy projects in Spain.

Bringing together equity investors from across aviation is key to raising the billions of dollars required

The challenges of decarbonizing African cities are numerous, considering the continent’s economic and demographic growth. The cement sector, a key sector for Africa’s development, is one of them.

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.

Two decades after ESG (environmental, social and governance) emerged out of a United Nations report (“Who Cares Wins”, 2004) and went mainstream, the concept is under attack as never before -- both as an investment philosophy and a business practice.

According to the World Economic Forum, 25 per cent of all global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by the supply chains of the food industry.

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Raw commodities are some of the most carbon-intensive products traded. Aware of the risks associated with their supply chain, sustainability-driven commodity merchants have already integrated ESG factors into their business strategies in order to reduce risks, improve financial returns and meet the expectations of their various stakeholders.

Global partnership brings large-scale private capital to investment grade market while giving investors access to high quality real asset credit opportunities.

After a decade or more with yields hovering around zero in many developed markets and falling into negative territory in countries including Germany and Japan, bonds are back.

The fiber optic operator Adamo, owned by the private investment house Ardian, has recently strengthened the company’s financing to consolidate growth in rural areas of Spain.

Sugarcane is the largest crop in the world by production quantity, totaling nearly 2 billion tons every year and accounting for most of the sugar produced globally.

Social enterprises, NGOs and similar civil society organisations are experts when it comes to the creation of social and environmental impact – but when it comes to financing them, the credit risk models of banks and investors send red alerts, for understandable reasons.

As part of Societe Generale’s annual Quant Conference held earlier this month, Benjamin Hoff, Societe Generale’s new Global Head of Commodities Research, took center stage with Greg Sharenow – a Managing Director at the giant US asset manager PIMCO - to discuss some of the important commodity related topics on the minds of institutional investors.

At the utterance of the acronym C-PACE, and almost certainly if you combine it with another, ABS, eyes are apt to glaze over, minds to wander. But these less widely known terms are behind a swell of new investments in U.S. real estate to fund commercial building improvements that are bringing tangible positive environmental and social change to people’s lives.

With tech banker Jonathan Weinberger