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Few financial innovations have caught the public imagination like cryptocurrencies. When Bitcoin was born out of the turmoil of the global financial crisis in 2009 it seemed rather mundane: an electronic peer-to-peer cash system, launched via an academic white paper by an anonymous author Satoshi Nakamoto. Its price was $0.

Find out more about the Greenlink Interconnector, the first privately funded interconnector in Europe which will be a key piece of the energy transition story: an article written by Michael De Witte, Director, Energy Advisory & Project Finance, Nathalie Lemarcis, Co-Head of Energy Advisory and Project Finance, Societe Generale in London and James O’Reilly,...

Talk about headwinds: the paradox of the aviation sector is that few industries have worked so hard to reduce their environmental impact and yet have so much left to do.

The battle to cool down the planet appears, ironically, to be heating up the economy. This is the essence of ‘greenflation’: the extra boost given to prices when conventional cost-push inflation – which we are currently experiencing as the world recovers from the pandemic thanks to massive fiscal/monetary stimulus and large excess savings – is supercharged by...

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.

Financing of up to 430 new E-Buses will enable EV fleet and battery storage provider Zenobē Energy to significantly contribute to decarbonising road transportation in the UK and Ireland.

Natural catastrophes caused $190 billion of economic damage worldwide in 2020 , a sum that has risen a staggering 20-fold over the past 50 years.

With hydrogen central to governments’ plans for decarbonisation by 2050, there is plentiful capital available for commercially viable projects.