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Copper mining can’t operate without fresh water. Lots of it, in fact, is needed in the smelting process and other stages of production. And this can cause a strain on groundwater supplies, especially if the copper mines are located in bone-dry regions, and where there are communities relying on the same water for their daily lives. Notwithstanding, copper is...

Arizona ranked as the second hottest state in the United States in July 2023, with an average temperature of 85.7º Fahrenheit, or 29.8°C, and has been among the fastest warming states in the US over the last 50 years.

Limiting the emissions on university campuses across the US will be key to reaching net zero goals by 2050.

Societe Generale’s Prime Services unit recently polled global investors, including pensions, endowments, funds of funds and wealth managers about their allocation strategies over the next year.

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.

The speed at which individuals can access the internet from their homes has grown rapidly since the days of dial-up, with fiberoptic cables now able to deliver data into homes at a rate of nearly 70% the speed of light. Despite these advances in technology and a multitude of providers, the U.S. still has a low degree of competition in high-speed broadband when...

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.