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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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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.

Just delayed or cancelled outright? The recession forecast by so many for 2023 has stubbornly failed to arrive, begging the question of whether the world’s central banks are managing to engineer a soft landing, or whether the global economy will still contract, only later than forecast?

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

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.

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.

As hundreds of billions of euros are invested to make the transition a reality, risk allocation throughout the value chain will be key.