Corporate Social Responsibility

The Franco-Chilean Chamber of Commerce recently held their "Trophées RSE 2021," recognizing the Corporate Social Responsibility (or RSE in French) efforts of Societe Generale and ALD in Chile.

The Business Roundtable continues to make ESG-friendly pronouncements. In 2020 alone, they have announced actions in support of Covid-19 relief, a special committee for racial equity and justice, and a call for a more regimented response to climate change.

During a recent multi-bank forum on climate change hosted by Societe Generale Americas, Roberto Simon, Head of Societe Generale Americas Natural Resources, pointed to several areas of technological advancement in the energy industry that are helping the industry in the fight against carbon emissions.

The Covid-19 global pandemic has upended the way the world lives, works, and orders its priorities. More than six months into the pandemic, however, we in the United States are being reminded that climate change hasn’t gone away but is actually accelerating.

If there is a US energy sector primed for growth and for all the right reasons, it would be offshore wind. This burgeoning renewable resource has the potential to be a massive marketplace in the coming years.

Jonathan Weinberger attended a forum last week hosted by WaterAid, an NGO dedicated to clean water and sanitation, which focused on addressing UN Sustainability Goal 6: Ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

Jonathan Weinberger, Societe Generale’s Head of Debt Capital Markets for the Americas, recently joined a panel of experts on ‘green’ finance at Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance conference to discuss this growing and meaningful area of finance and what it offers both investors and issuers . Following the conference, we took the opportunity to ask Jonathan a few...