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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 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

Landmark bond serves as model to finance the vast environmental and social ambitions of countries