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Bringing together equity investors from across aviation is key to raising the billions of dollars required

Matching Africa’s natural and human capital with financial capital is vital for its sustainable development. Societe Generale is deploying the know-how and experience of its teams to design innovative financings for the continent’s emerging entrepreneurs and impactful projects.

According to the World Economic Forum, 25 per cent of all global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by the supply chains of the food industry.

The fiber optic operator Adamo, owned by the private investment house Ardian, has recently strengthened the company’s financing to consolidate growth in rural areas of Spain.

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.

Social enterprises, NGOs and similar civil society organisations are experts when it comes to the creation of social and environmental impact – but when it comes to financing them, the credit risk models of banks and investors send red alerts, for understandable reasons.

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.

EnBW, a leading developer in offshore wind, is building one of Germany’s largest offshore wind farms, He Dreiht, in the North Sea. Societe Generale has been advising EnBW in the context of the project for almost two years.