Corporate Social Responsibility

La côte Atlantique est un lieu privilégié pour accueillir les projets éoliens offshore. Elle est en effet caractérisée par des vents puissants et constants à proximité de zones à forte densité de population comme la ville de New York. C’est dans ce contexte qu’Equinor, entreprise énergétique internationale, entreprend le développement d'Empire Wind, un...

Le solaire est la forme d'électricité propre qui connaît la croissance la plus rapide aux Etat-Unis. Le gouvernement a injecté des milliards pour encourager la fabrication de matériel solaire sur le territoire, via la loi de réduction de l'inflation. Trina Solar, un leader mondial de l’industrie photovoltaïque, installe sa première usine de fabrication à...

La canne à sucre est la culture la plus produite au monde. Avec près de 2 milliards de tonnes chaque année, elle couvre la majeure partie du sucre produit à l’échelle mondiale.

Benjamin Hoff, récemment nommé Responsable de la recherche sur les matières premières de Société Générale Amériques, s'est entretenu avec Greg Sharenow, Managing Director et gestionnaire de portefeuille du géant américain de la gestion d'actifs PIMCO, sur certains thèmes clés du secteur des matières premières pour les investisseurs institutionnels.

Évoquez l’acronyme C-PACE, ajoutez celui d’ABS, et presque invariablement, vous verrez se lever vers vous des regards interloqués. Pourtant, ces termes moins connus du grand public sont à l’origine d’un afflux de nouveaux investissements dans l’immobilier aux États-Unis permettant de financer une amélioration des bâtiments commerciaux et d’apporter des...

Alors que le monde recourt de plus en plus aux alternatives énergétiques propres, les moyens efficaces de stocker l'électricité s’avèrent de plus en plus essentiels.

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.

Karl Pettersen was recently appointed Chief Sustainability Officer for Societe Generale in the Americas. In his new role, Karl aims to promote a client-centric and pragmatic approach to Sustainability for our clients in the region. We asked Karl a few questions about his new position.

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.

Karl Pettersen, Societe Generale’s Head of Ratings Advisory, Americas, spoke last week at the 11th Annual Yale Alumni in Energy Conference, to an audience of energy consultants, regulators, investors, and energy companies, as well as Yale faculty and students.

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.

On behalf of SG Americas, Anna Faustini accepted the “Corporate Solutions Provider of the Year” award presented during the Global Capital Americas Derivatives Awards 2018.

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...