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About Société Générale

Société Générale ("SocGen") is one of the oldest banks in France, dating back to 1864. The original name was Société Générale pour favoriser le développement du commerce et de l'industrie en France. Société Générale offers retail and specialised financial services to 30 million customers in France and in 48 countries worldwide. In addition it provides services to companies, investors and private clients. Its businesses include retail, private, investment and corporate banking; insurance and investment management.

Website http://www.societegenerale.com/
Headquarters
29, boulevard Haussmann
75009 Paris
France
CEO/chair Frédéric Oudéa
CEO
Supervisor
Banque de France
Annual report Integrated Report 2019 - 2020
Ownership
listed on NYSE

Société Générale's shareholder structure can be accessed here.

Complaints and grievances

Individuals and communities who may be adversely affected by Société Générale's finance can raise a complaint to the bank via the following channels listed on the bank's contactpage: contact.devptdurable@socgen.com or csr@socgen.com.

Stakeholders may also raise complaints via the OECD National Contact Points (see OECD Watch guidance).

Related Dodgy Deals

Société Générale has been linked to the following "Dodgy Deals", e.g. as a current or past financier or through an expression of interest. Find out more about dodgy deals here. See the project or company profile for more details on the nature of the bank's link to the Dodgy Deal.

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Policy Assessments

Banks, climate and energy

Bank policy scores on fossil fuel financing

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
2021-03-24
FRA
74
Follower
Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 200 policy points for its fossil fuel policies; 120 possible points for oil and gas policies and 80 possible points for coal policies. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 50 points
50.5 - 100 points
100.5 - 150 points
150.5 - 200 points
For more details see this page.

Bank policy scores on fossil fuel expansion

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
2021-03-24
FRA
30
Follower
Explanation

The scores for a bank's policies restricting expansion of fossil fuels - in each area, prohibitions against financing projects and/or companies expanding that area - are aggregated into a fossil fuel expansion policy score.

The point-based policy ranking for fossil fuel expansion consists of the following distribution:

  • Coal mining: 14 points​
  • Coal power: 14 points
  • Other coal: 7 points
  • Tar sands: 7 points
  • Arctic oil and gas: 7 points
  • Offshore oil and gas: 7 points
  • Fracked oil and gas: 7 points
  • LNG: 7 points
  • Other oil and gas: 12 points

A bank can obtain a total of 82 policy points for its fossil fuel expansion policy. Based on this score, banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 20.5 points
21 - 41 points
41.5 - 61.5 points
62 - 82 points
For more details see this page.

Bank policy scores on oil and gas financing

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
2021-03-24
FRA
12
Laggard
Explanation

For tar sands, Arctic oil and gas, fracked oil and gas, offshore oil and gas and LNG, 18 possible policy points can be obtained. For other/conventional oil and gas, 30 policy points can be obtained. In total, a bank can score a total of 120 policy points for its oil and gas policies. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 30 points
30.5 - 60 points
60.5 - 90 points
90.5 - 120 points
For more details see this page.

Bank policy scores on tar sands

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
2021-03-24
FRA
4
Laggard
Explanation

The point-based policy ranking above assesses bank policies in four ways:

1) Restriction on direct financing for tar sands projects.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (1), moderate exclusion (2), strong exclusion (3)

2) Restriction on financing for companies that expand tar sands.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (2), strong exclusion (4)

3) The bank’s commitment to phase-out financing for tar sands.

  • None (0), reduction (1.5), weak phase-out (3), strong phase-out (5)

4) The bank’s commitment to exclude companies active in tar sands above a certain threshold.

  • None (0), enhanced due diligence (0.5), weak exclusion threshold (2), moderate exclusion threshold (4), strong exclusion threshold (5), full exclusion (6)

A bank can obtain a total of 18 policy points for its tar sands policy. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 4.5 points
5 - 9 points
9.5 - 13.5 points
14 - 18 points
For more details see this page.

Bank policy scores on Arctic oil and gas

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
2021-03-24
FRA
4
Laggard
Explanation

The point-based policy ranking assesses bank policies in four ways:

1) Restriction on direct financing for Arctic oil and gas projects.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (1), moderate exclusion (2), strong exclusion (3)

2) Restriction on financing for companies that expand Arctic oil and gas. 

  • None (0), weak exclusion (2), strong exclusion (4)

3) The bank’s commitment to phase-out financing for Arctic oil and gas.

  • None (0), reduction (1.5), weak phase-out (3), strong phase-out (5)

4) The bank’s commitment to exclude companies active in Arctic oil and gas above a certain threshold.

  • None (0), enhanced due diligence (0.5), weak exclusion threshold (2), moderate exclusion threshold (4), strong exclusion threshold (5), full exclusion (6)

A bank can obtain a total of 18 policy points for its Arctic oil and gas policy. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 4.5 points
5 - 9 points
9.5 - 13.5 points
14 - 18 points
For more details see this page.

Bank policy scores on offshore oil and gas

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
2021-03-24
FRA
0
Laggard
Explanation

The point-based policy ranking assesses bank policies in four ways:

1) Restriction on direct financing for offshore oil and gas projects.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (1), strong exclusion (3)

2) Restriction on financing for companies that expand offshore oil and gas.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (2), strong exclusion (4)

3) The bank’s commitment to phase-out financing for offshore oil and gas.

  • None (0), reduction (1.5), weak phase-out (3), strong phase-out (5)

4) The bank’s commitment to exclude companies active in offshore oil and gas above a certain threshold.

  • None (0), enhanced due diligence (0.5), weak exclusion threshold (2), strong exclusion threshold (5), full exclusion (6)

A bank can obtain a total of 18 policy points for its offshore oil and gas policy. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 4.5 points
5 - 9 points
9.5 - 13.5 points
14 - 18 points
For more details see this page.

Bank policy scores on fracked oil and gas

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
2021-03-24
FRA
1.5
Laggard
Explanation

The point-based policy ranking assesses bank policies in four ways:

1) Restriction on direct financing for fracked oil and gas projects.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (1), moderate exclusion (2), strong exclusion (3)

2) Restriction on financing for companies that expand oil and gas fracking.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (2), strong exclusion (4)

3) The bank’s commitment to phase-out financing for oil and gas fracking.

  • None (0), reduction (1.5), weak phase-out (3), strong phase-out (5)

4) The bank’s commitment to exclude companies active in oil and gas fracking above a certain threshold.

  • None (0), enhanced due diligence (0.5), weak exclusion threshold (2), moderate exclusion threshold (4), strong exclusion threshold (5), full exclusion (6)

A bank can obtain a total of 18 policy points for its fracking policy. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 4.5 points
5 - 9 points
9.5 - 13.5 points
14 - 18 points
For more details see this page.

Bank policy scores on other/conventional oil and gas

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
2021-03-24
FRA
2
Laggard
Explanation

The point-based policy ranking assesses bank policies in four ways:

1) Restriction on direct financing for other/conventional oil and gas projects.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (1.5), strong exclusion (5)

2) Restriction on financing for companies that expand other/conventional oil and gas. 

  • None (0), weak exclusion (3), strong exclusion (7)

3) The bank’s commitment to phase-out financing for other/conventional oil and gas.

  • None (0), financing reduction (1.5), weak phase-out (6), strong phase-out (8)

4) The bank’s commitment to exclude companies active in other/conventional oil and gas above a certain threshold.

  • None (0), enhanced due diligence/Equator Principles commitment (0.5), weak exclusion threshold (3), strong exclusion threshold (7), full exclusion (10)

A bank can obtain a total of 30 policy points for its other/conventional oil and gas policy. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 7.5 points
8 - 15 points
15.5 - 22.5 points
23 - 30 points
For more details see this page.

Bank policy scores on coal financing

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
2021-03-24
FRA
62
Leader
Explanation

For both coal mining and coal power, 32 possible policy points can be obtained, while for other coal,16 possible policy points can be obtained. So a bank can obtain a total of 80 policy points for its coal policies. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 20 points
20.5 - 40 points
40.5 - 60 points
60.5 - 80 points
For more details see this page.

Bank policy scores on coal mining

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
2021-03-24
FRA
27
Leader
Explanation

The point-based policy ranking assesses bank policies in four ways:

1) Restriction on direct financing for coal mining projects.

  • None (0), mountaintop removal mining exclusion (0.5), weak exclusion (2), moderate exclusion (4), strong exclusion (6)

2) Restriction on financing for companies that expand coal mining.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (4), strong exclusion (8)

3) The bank’s commitment to phase-out financing for coal mining.

  • None (0), exposure reduction (1.5), financing reduction (3), weak phase-out (4), moderate phase-out (6), strong phase-out (8)

4) The bank’s commitment to exclude companies active in coal mining above a certain threshold.

  • None (0), enhanced due diligence (0.5), weak exclusion threshold (3), moderate exclusion threshold (5), strong exclusion threshold (8), full exclusion (10)

A bank can obtain a total of 32 policy points for its coal mining policy. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 8 points
8.5 - 16 points
16.5 - 24 points
24.5 - 32 points
For more details see this page.

Bank policy scores on coal power

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
2021-03-25
FRA
23
Front runner
Explanation

The point-based policy ranking assesses bank policies in four ways:

1) Restriction on direct financing for coal power projects.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (2), moderate exclusion (4), strong exclusion (6)

2) Restriction on financing for companies that expand coal power.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (4), strong exclusion (8)

3) The bank’s commitment to phase-out financing for coal power.

  • None (0), proportional reduction (1), exposure reduction (1.5), financing reduction (3), weak phase-out (4), moderate phase-out (6), strong phase-out (8)

4) The bank’s commitment to exclude companies active in coal power above a certain threshold.

  • None (0), enhanced due diligence (0.5), weak exclusion threshold (3), moderate exclusion threshold (5), strong exclusion threshold (8), full exclusion (10)

A bank can obtain a total of 32 policy points for its coal power policy. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 8 points
8.5 - 16 points
16.5 - 24 points
24.5 - 32 points
For more details see this page.

Bank policy scores on coal infrastructure

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
2021-03-24
FRA
13
Leader
Explanation

The point-based policy ranking assesses bank policies in four ways:

1) Restriction on direct financing for coal infrastructure projects.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (1), strong exclusion (3)

2) Restriction on financing for companies that expand coal infrastructure.

  • None (0), weak exclusion (2), strong exclusion (4)

3) The bank’s commitment to phase-out financing for coal infrastructure.

  • None (0), exposure reduction (1), weak phase-out (2), strong phase-out (4)

4) The bank’s commitment to exclude companies active in coal infrastructure above a certain threshold.

  • None (0), enhanced due diligence (0.5), weak exclusion threshold (2), strong exclusion threshold (4), full exclusion (5)

A bank can obtain a total of 16 policy points for its coal infrastructure policy. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards (0-4 points), followers (4.5-8 points), front runners (8.5-12 points) or leaders (12.5-16 points)

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 4 points
4.5 - 8 points
8.5 - 12 points
12.5 - 16 points
For more details see this page.

Banks and human rights

Human Rights Benchmark Africa 2021

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Société Générale
FRA
3
Laggard
Explanation
Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 3.5 points
4 - 5.5 points
6 - 8.5 points
9 - 14 points
For more details see this page.

Tracking the Equator Principles

EPFIs reporting status

BankLast update
Country
Reporting period
PF deals under EP
Project names reported
% Project names reported
Details
Société Générale
2020-09-09
FRA
2019
35
35
100
Explanation

Project name reporting status of Equator Principles signatories for each financial institutions' most recent reporting period. 

For more details see this page.

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Three major French banks will not finance EACOP, according to French media

"The decision has been made, the project is too hard to defend", says bank source
2021-04-23 | #StopEACOP
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New bank climate initiative fails to grasp urgent need to end finance for fossil fuels

Civil society statement on the launch of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance
2021-04-22 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, urgewald, Amazon Watch, Bank on our Future, Indigenous Environmental Network, Market Forces, Positive Money, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, ShareAction, Sierra Club
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Leading finance firms sign up to Mark Carney forum on low-carbon investment

2021-04-21 | The Guardian
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More than half of Europe’s bank directors too compromised to end fossil fuel finance

2021-04-07 | DeSmog
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Banking on Climate Chaos 2021: World’s 60 largest banks have poured USD 3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since Paris Agreement

Even amidst the global economic downturn, fossil fuel financing numbers were higher in 2020 than 2016
2021-03-24 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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Over 260 organisations call on banks not to finance Total’s East African Crude Oil Pipeline

With a final investment decision nearing, African and International organisations warn banks against joining $2.5 billion loan for a “manifestly irresponsible” project • New stopeacop.net campaign website launched.
2021-03-01 | International | BankTrack, 350.org Africa, AFIEGO, Inclusive Development International, IUCN NL
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Banking beyond deforestation

How the banking industry can help halt and reverse deforestation
2021-01-18 | Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
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Bank lending to plastics industry faces scrutiny as pollution concerns mount

2021-01-07 | Reuters
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Five years since the Paris Agreement, are banks' 2050 pledges enough to reign in fossil fuel finance?

How the year's 'Paris-alignment' moves stack up against the measures needed to tackle the climate crisis
2020-12-12 | Ernst-Jan Kuiper – BankTrack
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Société Générale, Crédit Du Nord approve merger of retail banking operations

2020-12-07 | Nasdaq.com
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Six years of the Soft Commodities Compact failed to slow bank finance for deforestation

New BankTrack research shows need for banks to move beyond certification requirements
2020-12-01 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Equator Banks fail communities on consultation and grievance mechanisms, new study finds

BankTrack research into nine projects financed ‘under Equator’ finds routine failures to conduct proper community consultation and a lack of effective project-level grievance mechanisms
2020-11-24 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Barclays, HSBC and Credit Suisse among worst offenders on oil sands finance

ShareAction says Barclays has participated in 11 loan and bond deals to oil sands companies since its net zero announcement in March
2020-10-29 | London | ShareAction
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Société Générale: an approach to be completed to stop the development of fossils fuels

2020-10-28 | Reclaim Finance
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A call to action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End climate-destructive financing now

2020-10-20 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, and partners
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HSBC and other banks set climate targets for loans and investments

2020-10-01 | Bloomberg
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Principles for Responsible Banking no obstacle to finance climate destruction

Twenty PRB banks provided over US$1.25 trillion in fossil fuel financing since Paris Agreement
2020-09-22 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network
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New BankTrack Equator Principles reporting tracking tool launched

2020-09-21 | BankTrack
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Equator Principles requirements missing for most projects, finds new BankTrack study

Research into 37 projects financed 'under Equator' finds project-level grievance mechanisms or stakeholder engagement processes cannot be evidenced in 65% of cases
2020-08-11 | BankTrack
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Société Générale releases a misleading coal phase out policy

(erratum added)
2020-07-31 | Reclaim Finance
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European banks accused of propping up coal polluters

2020-07-15 | London | Financial Times
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Fool’s Gold: financial institutions waste billions undermining climate action

Financial institutions risking our renewable energy future by supporting the European coal sector
2020-07-15 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Greenpeace, urgewald, 350.org Japan, BlackRock, Ember, Europe Beyond Coal, Foundation Development YES Open-Pit Mines NO, Friends of the Earth Finland, Friends of the Earth France, Re:Common, Reclaim Finance, ShareAction
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Saudi Aramco closes US$10bn loan

2020-05-12 | London | Reuters
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Banking on Climate Change – Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2020

New report reveals global banks funneled USD 2.7 trillion into fossil fuels Since Paris Climate Agreement, with financing on the rise each year 
2020-03-18 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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Report on French banks’ colossal carbon footprint

2019-11-28 | Friends of the Earth France, Oxfam France
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Bank of America, Goldman and SocGen singled out for ‘human rights failings’

Pressure group says four out of five banks are ‘failing’ on human rights — though Citi, Barclays and Dutch bank ABN Amro win praise
2019-11-26 | Financial News
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Twenty percent of Dominican Republic territory at risk from fossil fuel auction, banks warned to steer clear

2019-11-26 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | CNLCC, Re:Common, BankTrack
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4 out of 5 banks failing on human rights, new BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark shows

Lloyds, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Société Générale among the poorest performers in BankTrack ranking, alongside Canadian and Chinese banks
2019-11-26 | BankTrack
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French banks still funding coal despite finance minister’s plea

2019-11-15 | EurActiv
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Coal finance exit in France – Banks and insurers urged to drop coal expansion clients and make good on commitments

2019-11-14 | Paris, France | BankTrack, Unfriend Coal
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Climate activists disrupt gas industry conference

2019-11-06 | Friends of the Earth Europe
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Aramco IPO: These are the banks and advisers on world's biggest sale

2019-11-03 | Bloomberg
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Rio Grande Valley: Big banks urged not to back high risk fracked-gas export terminals

2019-08-14 | BankTrack
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The French banks behind RWE's destruction

2019-07-10 | Guest blog Lorette Philippot, Europe Beyond Coal
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Leak exposes millions of dollars in new payments in Odebrecht cash-for-contracts scandal

2019-06-25 | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
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BankTrack 2019 Human Rights Benchmark: criteria and scope announced

2019-06-25 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Overly underwhelming - a reflection on Fossil Banks’ AGM season

2019-06-19
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RWE plans destruction of ancient German forest

Top bankers of Europe's biggest CO2 emitter revealed in Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019
2019-03-21 | Greig Aitken – BankTrack
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Banks' fossil fuel funding rises, environmental groups warn

2019-03-21 | S&P Global
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Global Banks, Led by JPMorgan Chase, Invested $1.9 Trillion in Fossil Fuels Since Paris Climate Pact

2019-03-20 | Desmogblog.com
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Banking on Climate Change – Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019

World's top banks have poured $1.9 trillion into fossil fuel financing since the Paris Agreement was adopted, with financing on the rise each year
2019-03-20 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack, Honor the Earth, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club
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Banks be warned – Poland’s PGE wants to blow the house and the climate on coal expansion extravaganza

Latest distress signal from new financial results another reason for potential financiers to walk away
2019-03-14 | Warsaw, Poland | Kuba Gogolewski – Development YES Open-Pit Mines NO
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Thirteen Guinean villages lodge complaint against World Bank for financing destructive bauxite mine

Further finance came from a syndicate of commercial banks under the Equator Principles
2019-03-11 | Conakry | Inclusive Development International
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Every two weeks a bank, insurer or lender announces new coal restrictions

Major financial institutions restricting coal funding tops 100
2019-02-27 | IEEFA
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Trans Adriatic Pipeline: France provides massive financial support to controversial gas project

2019-01-17 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
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Banks massively financing fossil fuels unclear about future of ... fossil fuels

Few banks acknowledge relation between fossil fuels and climate breakdown
2018-12-20 | Nijmegen
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912 activists ‘clean up’ Société Générale despite police repression

2018-12-14 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
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Behind banks' smokescreen

What banks aren't telling you about their 'climate ambition'
2018-12-13
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New report: Three years after the Paris climate summit, French banks are financing more coal

2018-11-26 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
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Principles must bring commitments

Banks endorsing draft Principles for Responsible Banking called upon to urgently act on what they sign
2018-11-26 | Paris | BankTrack
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Gunvor joins other commodity players with sustainability-linked loan led by ING

Participating banks in the Gunvor facility include ABN Amro, CA Indosuez, Credit Suisse, DBS Bank, KfW Ipex-Bank, Mizuho, MUFG Bank, Nedbank, Rabobank, Raiffeisen, Société Générale, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and UniCredit.
2018-10-17 | Global Trade Review
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Climate: Société Générale targeted by “clean-up” actions across France

2018-09-08 | Paris | Friends of the Earth France
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Tony Blair to meet Salvini to discuss Trans Adriatic Pipeline

2018-09-03 | The Guardian
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A gas pipeline to Italy? Five Star backers sense a betrayal

2018-08-12 | The New York Times
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Masses march against corruption in Dominican Republic

2018-08-12 | teleSUR
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Uncertainty over the future of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, as EBRD envisages loan decision

2018-06-14 | Elena Gerebizza - Re:Common
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How Kinder Morgan's bankers are funding a tar sands pipeline

2018-05-24 | Sightline Institute
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Smoke and mirrors - world's top banks on notice to slash support for coal power development

2018-04-05 | Greig Aitken – BankTrack
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Report finds major banks ramped up fossil fuel financing to $115 billion in 2017

Despite 2017 being the costliest year on record for weather disasters, new report reveals that banks increased extreme fossil fuel financing last year, led by a more than doubling in lending to tar sands companies and pipelines.
2018-03-28 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack, Honor the Earth, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club
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New report: Société Générale – Foot on the gas for fossil fuels

2018-03-05 | Paris | Friends of the Earth France
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With a little help from the European Commission: TAP and the Southern Gas Corridor

2018-02-23 | Counter Balance
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EIB approves 1.5 billion Euro loan for TAP gas pipeline

2018-02-06 | Reuters
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Southern Gas Corridor: Dirty as coal

2018-01-30 | 350.org
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TAP pipeline on course for first gas to Italy in early 2020

2017-12-22 | Reuters
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Banks criticised for funding coal deals despite Paris agreement

2017-12-11 | Financial Times
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EU commission urged bank to support Azerbaijan gas pipeline

2017-11-27 | ClimateHome
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European banks are financing monuments to a bygone fossil fuel era

2017-11-15 | Huffington Post
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Big banks complicit in massive tar sands destruction and pollution through hundreds of billions in financing

2017-11-02 | Rainforest Action Network
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Germany tightens the screws on international funds to Turkey

2017-10-25 | Bloomberg
blog
external news
our news

Investor alert: Deep sea mining project in last-ditch search for capital

Banks and other investors warned to steer clear
2017-10-25 | Nijmegen and Brisbane | BankTrack, Deep Sea Mining Campaign
blog
external news
our news

EBRD board approves $500 mln loan for TANAP gas pipeline project

2017-10-18 | Reuters
blog
external news
our news

EU bank to decide huge public loan to Europe’s biggest fossil fuel project

2017-10-17 | Climate Home News
blog
external news
our news

Operation Car Wash and a coal plant in the Dominican Republic – anti-corruption protestors are not giving up

2017-10-10 | Luca Manes – Re:Common
blog
external news
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Scandalo Lava Jato, Santo Domingo si ribella contro la corruzione. E c'entra anche l'Italia

2017-10-03 | l'Espresso
blog
external news
our news

The Azerbaijani Laundromat scandal and the Trans Adriatic Pipeline

Bank financing for fossil fuels is dirty, but how dirty?
2017-09-22 | Greig Aitken – BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Indigenous Groups Lead Movement to Call on Banks to Drop Enbridge’s Controversial Line 3 Pipeline

Tribal Nations based in Minnesota oppose the project and the Minnesota Department of Commerce has condemned it
2017-09-21 | Minneapolis, MN | Honor the Earth, Rainforest Action Network
blog
external news
our news

TAP announces time of starting offshore section construction

2017-09-19 | Trend
blog
external news
our news

Southern Gas Corridor is the missing piece of Azerbaijani Laundromat puzzle

2017-09-07 | The Guardian
blog
external news
our news

Bribes, bulldozers and BP: what makes a gas mega pipeline?

2017-09-07 | Platform
blog
external news
our news

Medina’s only option: terminate Odebrecht power plant contract

2017-08-28 | Dominican Today
blog
external news
our news

Punta Catalina perdería el financiamiento europeo que le resta para su terminación

2017-08-04 | Proceso
blog
external news
our news

Punta Catalina – the coal plant project that keeps on giving … a headache to European banks

2017-07-31 | Greig Aitken – BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Local residents in Salento resist mega-pipeline

2017-07-23 | 350.org
blog
external news
our news

Oil price and Russian pressure put Azerbaijan’s strategic gas project at risk

2017-07-19 | Chatham House
blog
external news
our news

EU urged to honour Paris Agreement and withdraw support for gas mega-pipeline

2017-07-03 | 350.org
blog
external news
our news

Contribution to the Equator principles development

2017-06-21 | Societe Generale
blog
external news
our news

Ten Equator banks demand decisive action on Indigenous peoples following DAPL debacle

Banks from the Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy press Equator Principles Association for change
2017-06-16 | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

28 major banks warned not to finance Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

Over 20 Indigenous and environmental groups deliver urgent letter.
2017-06-09 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, others
blog
external news
our news

Banks provide billions for Dirty Diesel traders while failing to act on human rights, says new briefing

- Oil traders Trafigura and Vitol received over $100 billion in loans since 2012
- Of 26 banks contacted, not one has pressured companies over toxic fuel exports to Africa
2017-05-23 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Pipeline action at Société Générale: French banks must not be Trump accomplices

2017-05-22 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Societe Generale and Macquarie Capital named financial advisors for Rio Grande LNG project

2017-05-02 | Oil&Gas360
blog
external news
our news

The pipeline of the three regimes – major investigation into TAP

2017-04-20 | l'Espresso
blog
external news
our news

Des Italiens se battent pour protéger leurs oliviers contre un gazoduc géant soutenu par Vinci et la Société Générale

2017-04-13 | Observatoire des Multinationales
blog
external news
our news

Italy court halts TAP pipeline work in Italy

2017-04-06 | Reuters
blog
external news
our news

Lazio TAR court suspends TAP olive-tree removals

2017-04-06 | ANSA
blog
external news
our news

A south Italian village's fight against the fossil fuel industry

2017-03-31 | openDemocracy
blog
external news
our news

French Banks’ Dangerous Liaisons with the Israeli Settlement Enterprise

2017-03-31 | Association France Palestine Solidarité
blog
external news
our news

Report reveals links between five French banks and insurance companies and the Israeli settlements

2017-03-29 | Paris | Association France Palestine Solidarité, CCFD - Terre Solidaire, FIDH, LDH, Solidaires
blog
external news
our news

Europe’s biggest banks register €25 billion profit in tax havens

2017-03-27 | Fair Finance International, Oxfam
blog
external news
our news

Italian communities block pipeline works to save ancient olive trees

2017-03-23 | CEE Bankwatch Network
blog
external news
our news

Azerbaijan’s lost transparency

2017-03-20 | Carnegie Europe
blog
external news
our news

Watchdog suspends Azerbaijan, EU gas pipeline loans threatened

2017-03-10 | Climate Home
blog
external news
our news

Azerbaijan risks gas pipeline loans by quitting transparency monitor

Baku reacts to suspension for failing to address civil rights concerns
2017-03-10 | Financial Times
blog
external news
our news

Trans-Adriatic Pipeline a major risk for banks, warns new analysis

2017-02-22 | Brussels | Counter Balance and BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Indonesia’s last stand for a coal industry in peril

2017-02-13 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

Power plant 'one year behind schedule'

2017-02-08 | Dominican Today
blog
external news
our news

Anti-impunity marches to continue

2017-02-03 | Dominican Today
blog
external news
our news

La Société Générale priée de renoncer à financer la centrale charbon de Punta Catalina

2017-01-26 | Boursier.com
blog
external news
our news

Dominicans on the march against Punta Catalina kickbacks, and want financiers out of the coal plant project

2017-01-23 | Greig Aitken – BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Odebrecht corruption in Dominican Republic – Five European banks urged to pull out of dirty coal plant financing

2017-01-18 | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre, National Committee to Combat Climate Change
blog
external news
our news

Punta Catalina Commission to subpoena top officials

2017-01-17 | Dominican Today
blog
external news
our news

March aims to indict corrupt officials, Odebrecht executives

2017-01-16 | Dominican Today
blog
external news
our news

French bank backs out of financing Indonesian coal plant

Société Générale will not provide financing for the Tanjung Jati coal plant expansion, activists report
2017-01-04 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

Coal in Indonesia: Société Générale pulls out of financing, Crédit Agricole under pressure to follow

2017-01-03 | Paris | Friends of the Earth France
blog
external news
our news

Odebrecht must be terminated: civil society group

2016-12-29 | Dominican Today
blog
external news
our news

Odebrecht $92 million bribe: Just hours to deadline, utility produces papers

2016-12-27 | Dominican Today
blog
external news
our news

A graveyard of unfinished work left in development bank’s wake

2016-12-01 | Bloomberg
blog
external news
our news

COP22: The pressure is growing on banks financing coal expansion in Indonesia

2016-11-18 | Yann Louvel – BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Financing of coal industry expansion by top banks undermining Paris Agreement

2016-11-14 | Marrakech, Morocco | BankTrack, Friends of the Earth France, Market Forces, Rainforest Action Network, urgewald
blog
external news
our news

Climate Finance Day: BNP Paribas failing to respect coal finance commitments

One year after COP21, French bank has still not excluded Polish coal company PGE from client list
2016-11-03 | Paris, France | BankTrack, Fair Finance France, Foundation Development YES Open-Pit Mines NO, Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Climat: le Crédit agricole et la Société générale ne financeront pas de nouvelles centrales à charbon

2016-10-28 | Le Monde
blog
external news
our news

Charbon: le «double jeu» des banques françaises

2016-10-28 | Liberation
blog
external news
our news

Crédit Agricole and Société Générale announce end to financing of coal power projects

2016-10-27 | Paris, Nijmegen | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Malgré leurs promesses, les banques restent addicts au carbone

2016-10-04 | L'Humanité
blog
external news
our news

Coal: Will the Paris Agreement go up in smoke thanks to Crédit Agricole and Société Générale?

2016-07-27 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre, BankTrack and Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

New report finds banks betting on climate change

Seventh annual bank finance Report Card reveals major banks poured hundreds of billions into extreme fossil fuels
2016-06-14 | Nijmegen, San Francisco | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club and Oil Change International
blog
external news
our news

European banks warned over raid on pension funds to finance disputed coal plant in Dominican Republic

2016-05-27 | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | CNLCC, BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre France
blog
external news
our news

Indonesia: The climate test for Crédit Agricole and Société Générale

2016-05-19 | Les Amis de la Terre and Greenpeace Indonesia
blog
external news
our news

Coal: a fraud still being supported by Crédit Agricole and Société Générale

2016-03-30 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Do not fund Southern Gas Corridor with EU money

2016-03-01 | EurActiv
blog
external news
our news

Bank financing of staggering Polish coal development plans continues to run deep

2016-02-25 | Kuba Gogolewski – Development YES Open-Pit Mines NO
blog
external news
our news

New BankTrack Human Rights Impact Briefing: Labour standards violations in IOI Corporation’s Malaysian plantations

2016-02-16 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

New BankTrack Human Rights Impact Briefing: Labour standards violations in IOI Corporation’s Malaysian plantations

2016-02-16 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Post-Paris, and the dodgy coal deals are already sprouting up in 2016

2016-02-02 | Greig Aitken – BankTrack, Yann Louvel – BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

BNP Paribas and Société Générale move away from coal – but not far enough

2015-11-19 | BankTrack and Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Bangladesh coal plant “non-compliant with Equator Principles” shows new BankTrack analysis

“Big Three” French banks ruled out financing for Rampal project near Sundarbans World Heritage mangrove forest
2015-06-29 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

French banks say no to Bangladesh coal plant

2015-06-25 | The Guardian
blog
external news
our news

Three French banks refuse to finance Galilee Basin projects

2015-04-09 | Mining Innovation News
blog
external news
our news

French banks refuse to finance Great Barrier Reef coal mines ($)

2015-04-09 | Business Green
blog
external news
our news

Les banques françaises se retirent du plus grand projet charbonnier au monde

2015-04-08 | Le Monde
blog
external news
our news

Victory for the climate and environment: French banks pledge not to finance mega coal projects in Australia's Galilee Basin

2015-04-08 | Montreuil, France; Nijmegen, Netherlands | Friends of the Earth France / BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Societe Generale pulls out of GVK Hancock's long-delayed coal project

2014-12-08 | Reuters
blog
external news
our news

Under citizen pressure, Société Générale drops out of the Alpha Coal project

2014-12-05 | Bayonne, Montreuil, Paris | Les Amis de la Terre, Bizi! and ATTAC France
blog
external news
our news

Banks not yet living up to UN human rights principles, finds BankTrack

New research finds inadequate reporting on human rights impacts, and failure to establish mechanisms to allow complaints.
2014-12-02 | Geneva | BANKTRACK
blog
external news
our news

Is GDF’s green bond issue really green?

2014-07-10 | Environmental Finance ($)
blog
external news
our news

BankTrack Blog: “Green Bond” issue risks raising finance for destructive dams

2014-07-09
blog
external news
our news

« Si la Société Générale appliquait ses principes sociaux et environnementaux, elle ne resterait pas impliquée une seconde de plus dans le projet Alpha Coal »

2014-06-16 | Observatoire des Multinationales
blog
external news
our news

Action in Bayonne against Société Générale and Alpha Coal

2014-06-02 | Bayonne
blog
external news
our news

Société Générale pressured to step out of Alpha Coal project before AGM starts

2014-05-19 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Victory for communities and environmental groups as proposed Kaliningrad nuclear plant is buried

2014-04-24 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Forecaster says mining in Galilee won't go ahead

2014-04-24 | ABC
blog
external news
our news

Société Générale is breaching its own standards in backing massive, risky Queensland coal project, study finds

2014-04-15 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

La Société générale part au charbon dans le bush australien

2014-04-14 | France | Liberation
blog
external news
our news

Australian and French banks target of protests on both sides of the world for investing in Australian coal projects

2014-02-26 | Melbourne and Paris | Market Forces and Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Société Générale: International mobilization against Alpha Coal Project

2013-10-24 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Who owns Belo Monte?

The foreign equity participation in the Belo Monte Dam Project
2013-08-29 | GegenStroemung / CounterCurrent
blog
external news
our news

Civil society groups mobilize to tell Société Générale to withdraw from the Kaliningrad nuclear project

2013-06-24 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Investor Alert: GVK's US$10 billion Australian coal project uneconomic, an unacceptable risk

Finanial analysis of GVK Alpha Coal Project in Queensland's Galilee Basin concludes
2013-06-19 | Sydney | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

France must let Kaliningrad nuclear project die !

2013-06-05 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Anti-Areva Protest: Letter to French and European Bankers from Fishermen and Farmers of Jaitapur

2013-06-04 | DiaNuke.org
blog
external news
our news

Société Générale AGM: Do not finance Kaliningrad nuclear project

2013-05-22 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Kaliningrad Nuclear Plant: HypoVereinsbank follows BNP Paribas and pulls out. When will Coface and Société Générale follow suit?

2013-04-26 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Une centrale russe à l’assaut de l’Europe (Russian plant to conquer Europe)

2013-03-14 | France | Politis
blog
external news
our news

Kaliningrad: Are France and Societe Generale responsible for double standards in nuclear safety?

2013-03-06 | Paris | Friends of the Earth France and Greenpeace France
blog
external news
our news

Equator Principles goes beyond project finance, improves transparency

2012-08-13 | Environmental Finance
blog
external news
our news

New report: European banks fuelling food price volatility and hunger

2012-01-12 | Brussels | Friends of the Earth Europe
blog
external news
our news

Bankrolling Climate Change

NGOs present groundbreaking research on banks’ involvement in coal financing
2011-11-30 | Durban | urgewald, Earthlife, BankTrack and groundWork
blog
external news
our news

French banks: a citizen rating reveals what is going on underneath their activities

2011-11-02 | Paris and Nice | Les Amis de la Terre and Attac France
blog
external news
our news

While BankTrack criticizes Equator Principles, IFC celebrates Community of Learning

2011-10-25 | Washington | prizmablog.com
blog
external news
our news

Time to Improve the Equator Principles, BankTrack Says

2011-10-24 | Washington | Social Funds
blog
external news
our news

BankTrack to Equator Principles banks; ‘get the Outside Job done’

Equator Principles update must lead to new Principles focused on people and planet
2011-10-23 | Washington | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Financiers search for sustainable future

2011-10-20 | Washington | Environmental Finance
blog
external news
our news

‘Nuclear banks no thanks’ coalition demands banks to stop financing nuclear energy

Nuclear disaster in Japan is a sad and urgent reminder of the inherent risks of nuclear energy
2011-03-15 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Nam Theun 2 inauguration hides real costs of controversial Equator Principles project

More than 100,000 people continue to suffer project impacts
2010-12-07 | Laos | International Rivers
blog
external news
our news

World Bank-backed dam powers ahead, despite social cost

2010-12-07 | Bangkok | Inter Press Service
blog
external news
our news

Lancement du premier calculateur de l’empreinte carbone de notre épargne

2010-11-22 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

New rules for Equator Principles, but no new commitments from banks

New governance rules represent missed chance for Equator Principles to take bold steps forward on transparency and accountability
2010-07-01 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

BankTrack calls on banks to stop funding nuclear power

New website exposes nuclear secrets of commercial banks
2010-05-26 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

BankTrack calls upon banks to Close the Gap on investment policies

New report evaluates quality of investment policies of 49 banks; more policies in place, overall quality below what is required
2010-04-27 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Laos’ Nam Theun 2 dam operation illegal

Equator Principles project begins selling power to Thailand in violation of Concession Agreement and obligations to affected communities
2010-03-23 | Laos | International Rivers
blog
external news
our news

Equator Principles: Action, not words needed

BankTrack calls upon Citi, new chair of Equator Principles to take bold steps forward
2010-03-15 | Nijmegen, The Netherlands | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Civil society groups call for bold steps forward with Equator Principles

Major reforms needed on transparency, accountability, implementation and climate change
2010-01-14 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Top financial institutions still invest US$20 billion in cluster bombs

Activists call on banks and pension funds to disinvest from banned weapon
2009-10-29 | London | Netwerk Vlaanderen
blog
external news
our news

EPR : Les banques françaises portent à bout de bras un fiasco industriel

2009-10-16 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

European banks withdraw from Ilisu dam project in Turkey

NGOs welcome pullout as the right decision
2009-07-10 | Nijmegen | CounterCurrent/Gegenstroemung
blog
external news
our news

Victoire historique : la Société Générale se retire d’Ilisu !

2009-07-09 | Paris | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Ilisu Dam Project: European Governments Officially Announce Withdrawal

Commercial banks expected to follow
2009-07-07 | Berlin | CounterCurrent/Gegenstroemung et al.
blog
external news
our news

Austria's ECA officially declares pull-out of Ilisu dam project

Commercial banks expected to follow example - decision strengthens resistance in Turkey
2009-07-06 | Vienna, Austria | CounterCurrent/Gegenstroemung
blog
external news
our news

BankTrack members unveil bank secrets

Six European organizations launch a revealing website: www.banksecrets.eu
2009-06-25 | Brussels | CRBM
blog
external news
our news

Ilisu dam-affected people expropriated amidst ultimatum

Turkish Government snubs Europeans shortly before the deadline
2009-06-09 | Berlin, Vienna, Zurich | CounterCurrent/Gegenstroemung
blog
external news
our news

Protest rallies against Turkish dam all over Europe

Ilisu dam critics backed by damning expert report
2008-03-14 | Europe | BankTrack et al.
blog
external news
our news

Environmental Victory for Sakhalin II

Project sponsor announces it cannot get financing from US and UK Export Credit Agencies
2008-03-04 | London, Washington, Sakhalin | Pacific Environment
blog
external news
our news

NGOs condemn signing of the contracts for Ilisu Dam by Société Générale, Bank Austria and DekaBank

Irregularities at beginning expropriation in reservoir area
2007-08-15 | Berlin/Frankfurt | Urgewald
blog
external news
our news

Banks to stay out of Ilisu Dam Project

2007-05-24 | Utrecht, Netherlands
blog
external news
our news

New report FoE France : French Banks, Fossil Banks?

New FoE report slams French banks for sad state climate policies
2007-03-06 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

European banks withdraw from Belene nuclear power project

UniCredit Group, HVB and Deutsche Bank think Bulgarian project too risky
2006-10-20 | Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Sofia, Milan | Urgewald
blog
external news
our news

New report FoE France : Banques et environnement: Presque tout reste à faire

2006-03-06 | Paris, France | Les Amis de la Terre

Documents

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our publications

Banking on Climate Chaos 2021

Fossil Fuel Finance Report
2021-03-24 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance & Sierra Club
ngo documents

Big meat. Big bucks. Bigger harm.

Animal welfare and European financial links with deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado
2021-03-05 00:00:00 | World Animal Protection and Profundo
bank documents

Societe Generale’s climate-related reporting following the TCFD and NFRD guidelines

2021-03-02 00:00:00 | Société Générale
our publications

Open Letter from over 260 civil society organisations to banks on EACOP

2021-02-25 00:00:00 | 263 CSOs
other documents

Banking beyond deforestation

How the banking industry can help halt and reverse deforestation
2021-01-18 00:00:00 | Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
correspondence

Letter from IFI Synergy and BankTrack to Société Générale on investments in Nachtigal hydropower project

2021-01-07 00:00:00 | IFI Synergy and BankTrack
annual reports

Integrated Report 2019 - 2020

2020-12-31 00:00:00 | Societe Generale
other documents

Collective Commitment to Climate Action - Year One in Review

2020-12-08 00:00:00 | UNEP FI Principles for Responsible Banking
our publications

Soft Commitments, Hard Lessons: an analysis of the Soft Commodities Compact

2020-11-30 00:00:00 | BankTrack
our publications

"Trust Us, We're Equator Banks": Part II

2020-11-24 00:00:00 | BankTrack
other documents

The Banking Environment Initiative (BEI) & the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)’s ‘Soft Commodities’ Compact

2020-11-16 00:00:00 | Banking Environment Initiative
other documents

The BEI & CGF’s ‘Soft Commodities’ Compact: Technical Guidance

2020-11-16 00:00:00 | Banking Environment Initiative
ngo documents

High Risk, Low Reward

An overview of European banks' position on oil sands
2020-10-31 00:00:00 | ShareAction
csr policies

Climate strategy

2020-10-28 00:00:00 | Société Générale
our publications

A Call to Action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End Climate-Destructive Financing Now

Joint civil society statement
2020-10-20 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, and others
csr policies

Thermal coal sector policy

2020-07-31 00:00:00 | Société Générale
our publications

Fool's Gold

The financial institutions risking our renewable energy future with coal
2020-07-15 00:00:00 | Europe Beyond Coal, BankTrack, BlackRock’s Big Problem, Ember, Fundacja "Rozwój TAK - Odkrywki NIE”, Friends of the Earth Finland, Friends of the Earth France, Greenpeace, Reclaim Finance, Re:Common, ShareAction, Urgewald, 350 Japan
csr policies

Press release: sector policy on coal power

2020-07-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale
ngo documents

Gas in Mozambique: A windfall for the industry, a curse for the country

France thrusts Mozambique into the fossil fuel trap
2020-06-24 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre France, Friends of the Earth International, JA! (Friends of the Earth Mozambique)
annual reports

Annual report 2019

2020-05-12 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Modern Slavery Act statement 2020

2020-05-05 00:00:00 | Société Générale
our publications

Banking on Climate Change - Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2020

2020-03-18 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
csr policies

Sector policy: Defence and Security

2020-02-29 00:00:00 | Société Générale
correspondence

Letter from BankTrack to Société Générale on the bank's progress on its fossil fuel finance since COP24

2019-12-10 00:00:00 | BankTrack
our publications

Exiting coal. Is the French finance industry on its way?

2019-11-14 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Unfriend Coal
other documents

Collective Commitment to Climate Action

2019-09-19 00:00:00 | UNEP FI Principles for Responsible Banking
correspondence

Letter from Société Générale to BankTrack on PRB implementation

2019-09-11 00:00:00 | Société Générale
correspondence

Letter from Société Générale to BankTrack on comments on 2019 Human Rights Benchmark

2019-07-29 00:00:00 | Société Générale
ngo documents

Fool's Gold

The financial institutions bankrolling Europe’s most coal-dependent utilities
2019-05-21 00:00:00 | Europe Beyond Coal
our publications

Annual General Meeting Shareholder Briefing Société Générale (in French)

2019-05-21 00:00:00
annual reports

Annual report 2018

2019-04-30 00:00:00 | Société Générale
annual reports

CSR report 2018

2019-04-30 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Human Rights Statement

2019-03-31 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Code of conduct

2019-02-28 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Global Agreement on Fundamental Rights

2019-02-04 00:00:00 | Société Générale
bank documents

The Katowice Commitment

2018-12-04 00:00:00 | ING, BBVA, BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Standard Chartered
correspondence

Letter from BankTrack and 120 organisations to Société Générale on Demands FBNT campaign

2018-10-16 00:00:00 | BankTrack and 120 organisations
ngo documents

French Banks: TOTALly irreponsible in ultra-deep waters

Briefing paper
2018-08-03 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth France, Greenpeace France
ngo documents

Note to Societe Generale on financial risks of supporting fracked gas export infrastructures

2018-07-23 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre
correspondence

Letter from NGOs to Societe Generale on Rio Grande LNG

2018-07-23 00:00:00 | NGOs
csr policies

Anti-money laundering questionnaire

2018-07-23 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Sector policy oil and gas

2018-05-18 00:00:00 | Société Générale
ngo documents

Letter from NGOs to Societe Generale on Rio Grande LNG

2017-11-07 00:00:00
correspondence

Letter from RAN and 13 others to 14 banks that underwrote Kinder Morgan Canada IPO on warning to finance the IPO

2017-06-06 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network et al
our publications

Société Générale Fossil Bank Briefing 2017

English version
2017-05-23 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre
our publications

Société Générale Fossil Bank Briefing 2017

French version
2017-05-23 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre
annual reports

Annual Financial Report 2016

2017-05-16 00:00:00 | Société Générale
ngo documents

French Banks' Dangerous Liaisons with the Israeli Settlement Enterprise

2017-03-10 00:00:00 | Al-Haq, Association France Palestine Solidarité, Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Développement, Confédération Générale du Travail, Fair Finance France, Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l’Homme and Union Syndicale SOLIDAIRES
our publications

The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project: identified non-compliance with the Equator Principles

2017-02-22 00:00:00 | Counter Balance and BankTrack
ngo documents

Risky business: Who benefits from the Southern Gas Corridor?

2016-12-13 00:00:00 | CEE Bankwatch Network
correspondence

Letter from Société Générale to BankTrack on Dakota Access Pipeline

2016-12-05 00:00:00 | Société Générale
correspondence

Letter from 500 organisations to Société Générale on financing DAPL

2016-11-30 00:00:00 | 500 organisations
csr policies

Sector policy - forestry and forest products

2016-10-31 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Palm Oil Sector Policy

2016-10-31 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Sector policy: agriculture, fisheries and food sector

2016-10-31 00:00:00 | Société Générale
ngo documents

Investigation of impacts of the TAP compressor station location, in the area of Serres prefecture

Application of a methodology to evaluate alternatives
2016-07-31 00:00:00 | Professor Aristotelis Naniopoulos, Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
correspondence

Letter from BankTrack et al. to Societe Generale on EPH financing

2016-07-05 00:00:00 | BankTrack et al.
our publications

Banking with Principles? Second Edition June 2016

Benchmarking Banks against the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
2016-06-30 00:00:00 | BankTrack
our publications

Shorting the Climate

Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2016
2016-06-14 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club and Oil Change International
our publications

Poland – Banks funding the dirtiest form of coal

2016-06-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack
our publications

Société Générale Coal Bank Briefing 2016

2016-05-18 00:00:00 | BankTrack / Les Amis de la Terre France
annual reports

Registration document 2015

2016-03-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale
our publications

Human Rights Impact Briefing #1:Labour standards violations in IOICorporation’s Malaysian plantations

2016-02-16 00:00:00 | BankTrack
our publications

Société Générale Coal Bank Briefing 2015

English version
2015-05-19 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre
our publications

Société Générale Coal Bank Briefing 2015

French version
2015-05-19 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Les Amis de la Terre
our publications

The end of coal?

2015 Coal Finance Report Card
2015-05-04 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network and Sierra Club
annual reports

Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2013-2014

2015-04-14 00:00:00 | Société Générale
annual reports

Registration document 2014

2015-03-11 00:00:00 | Société Générale
ngo documents

Pipe dreams: Why public subsidies for Lukoil in Azerbaijan will not reduce EU dependency on Russia

2015-01-21 00:00:00 | CEE Bankwatch Network
our publications

Banking with Principles?

Benchmarking Banks against the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
2014-12-02 00:00:00 | BankTrack
ngo documents

Dirty Profits III

Reporting on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights 
2014-10-01 00:00:00 | Facing Finance
csr policies

Environmental and social general guidelines for business engagement

2014-09-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Sector policy - civil nuclear power

2014-09-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Sector policy - shipping

2014-09-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Cross-sectorial policy - biodiversity

2014-09-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Sector policy - dams and hydropower

2014-09-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale
correspondence

Letter from Société Générale to Les Amis de la Terre on Sime Darby & fires in Indonesia

2013-07-12 00:00:00 | Société Générale
correspondence

Letter from Les Amis de la Terre + FoEE to Société générale on Sime Darby & fires in Indonesia

2013-07-11 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre + FoEE
ngo documents

The financing of Sime Darby by European financial institutions. A Profundo Research

2013-06-18 00:00:00 | Profundo
correspondence

Letter to Société Générale on Baltic NPP

2013-04-26 00:00:00 | 94 organisations
ngo documents

Sime Darby and land grabs in Liberia

French banks financing land grabbing
2013-04-17 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth Europe
correspondence

Letter from Les Amis de la Terre + FoEE to Société générale on Financial support to Sime Darby

2013-03-20 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre + FoEE
annual reports

Registration Document 2013

2013-03-04 00:00:00 | Société Générale
bank documents

French financial institutions energy guidance notes

2013-02-05 00:00:00 | ORSE
correspondence

Letter from Les Amis de la Terre + FoEE to Société générale on Investment in Sime Darby

2013-01-23 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre + FoEE
ngo documents

Worldwide investments in Cluster munitions, a shared responsibility

2012-06-20 00:00:00 | IKV Pax Christi & FairFin
other documents

2011 Global Investor Statement on Climate Change

2011-10-19 00:00:00 | IIGCC, INCR, IGCC, UNEP-FI, PRI
other documents

Societe Generale Cluster Munitions Investments

2011-05-25 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen & IKV Pax Christi
annual reports

Registration document 2011

2011-04-19 00:00:00 | Société Générale
correspondence

Letter from BankTrack to EPFIs on issues around Equator Principles Review process

2010-12-18 00:00:00 | Banktrack
our publications

Nuclear Banks, No Thanks!

2010-05-25 00:00:00 | Greenpeace, urgewald, BankTrack, other NGOs
our publications

Close the Gap

Benchmarking investment policies of international banks
2010-04-27 00:00:00 | BankTrack
other documents

Societe Generale cluster munitions investments

2010-04-01 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen, IKV PAX Christi
other documents

Société Générale cluster munitions financing

2009-10-01 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen et. al.
ngo documents

Worldwide investments in CLUSTER MUNITIONS, a shared responsibility

2009-10-01 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen, et. al.
ngo documents

French insurances : guaranteed climate change?

2008-12-10 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre
ngo documents

Assurances françaises : changements climatiques garantis?

2008-12-10 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre
ngo documents

Assurances françaises : changements climatiques garantis?

2008-12-10 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre
ngo documents

Rapports d'experts sur Ilisu (Turquie) : un barrage très loin des normes internationales minimales

2008-07-01 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre
ngo documents

Profiles of European Banks

2008-01-11 00:00:00 | Ceres
ngo documents

Environnement: Comment choisir ma banque?

2007-03-06 00:00:00 | Les amis de la Terre
ngo documents

Banques françaises et environnement : presque tout reste à faire

2006-03-06 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre

Links

Pictures from action against the financing of the Ilisu dam by Société Générale

Action in front of Société Générale headquarters in november 2008.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27557459@N00/sets/72157609437926053/show/

cyberaction N° 542 : La Société Générale et la Coface ne doivent pas financer le projet nucléaire russe de Kaliningrad!

On-line cyberaction (in French) launched on April 26, 2013 targeting Coface and Société Générale on the Kaliningrad NPP project.
http://www.cyberacteurs.org/cyberactions/societe-generale-coface-ne-doivent-pas-financer-projet-nucleaire-russe-kaliningrad-600.html

Société Générale's CSR pages

http://www.societegenerale.com/en/measuring-our-performance/csr

Alpha Coal and Societe Generale nominated for Pinocchio climate awards 2015

http://www.pinocchio-awards.org/

Webocumentary: 'Walking the Line' of the Southern Gas Corridor

This webdocumentary, produced by Counter Balance, Platform and Re:Common, presents the risks associated with the Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline or Southern Gas Corridor. One of the biggest pipelines ever conceived, the corridor is supposed to stretch for 3500 kilometres from Azerbaijan to Italy and supply Europe with gas for many decades to come. Through vivid pictures, infographics and videos, the webdoc invites the public to walk along the pipeline – including in areas where the TAP project is planned – and have a look at the devastating consequences it could have for people and the environment.

http://globalmotion.pageflow.io/walkingtheline

Publication of Compact banks’ approaches to implementation of the Soft Commodities Compact

https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/business-action/sustainable-finance/banking-environment-initiative/programme/restore-nature/reporting-and-technical-guidance

Policies

Voluntary initiatives

Société Générale has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:

Investment policies

Société Générale's web page on corporate social responsibility can be accessed here.

Year:
csr policies

Climate strategy

2020-10-28 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Thermal coal sector policy

2020-07-31 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Press release: sector policy on coal power

2020-07-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Modern Slavery Act statement 2020

2020-05-05 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Sector policy: Defence and Security

2020-02-29 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Human Rights Statement

2019-03-31 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Code of conduct

2019-02-28 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Global Agreement on Fundamental Rights

2019-02-04 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Anti-money laundering questionnaire

2018-07-23 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Sector policy oil and gas

2018-05-18 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Sector policy - forestry and forest products

2016-10-31 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Palm Oil Sector Policy

2016-10-31 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Sector policy: agriculture, fisheries and food sector

2016-10-31 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Environmental and social general guidelines for business engagement

2014-09-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Sector policy - civil nuclear power

2014-09-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Sector policy - shipping

2014-09-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Cross-sectorial policy - biodiversity

2014-09-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale
csr policies

Sector policy - dams and hydropower

2014-09-01 00:00:00 | Société Générale

Equator Principles

Implementation and reporting

Société Générale is reporting on the implementation here.

Contact and complaints

Equator Principles Dodgy Deals

Projects

active

Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG) Guinea

Mining
active

Dakota Access Pipeline United States

Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil
on record

Hazelwood coal power plant Australia

Coal Electric Power Generation
active

Mozambique LNG Mozambique

LNG Terminal | Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas
target

Nachtigal hydropower plant Cameroon

Hydroelectric Power Generation
active

Punta Catalina-Hatillo coal power plant Dominican Republic

Coal Electric Power Generation
active

Rio Grande LNG Terminal United States

LNG Terminal
on record

Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) - international -

Oil and Gas Extraction
active

Tufanbeyli coal power plant Turkey

Coal Electric Power Generation
on record

Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline Azerbaijan

Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil
on record

Camisea pipeline project Peru

Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas
on record

Kashagan oil project Kazakhstan

Oil and Gas Extraction
on record

Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) project Papua New Guinea

LNG Terminal
on record

Nam Theun 2 dam Laos

Hydroelectric Power Generation
on record

Sakhalin II oil and gas project Russian Federation

Oil and Gas Extraction
on record

SOCAR Aegean Refinery Turkey

Coal Electric Power Generation | Oil and Gas Extraction
on record

Toka Tindung gold mine Indonesia

Mining
on record

Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project (TMEP) Canada

Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil

Good moves

Year:

2021

Three major French banks will not finance EACOP, according to French media

The #StopEACOP campaign warmly welcomes the news that the three largest French banks, BNP Paribas, Société Générale and Crédit Agricole, will not be financing the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a proposed 1,445-kilometer heated oil pipeline through Uganda and Tanzania. This…

2017

Société Générale pulls out of financing TJB2

After a year of campaigning by Friends of the Earth France, Société Générale confirmed the implementation of the new coal power policy it adopted in October 2016, which states that the bank will not finance any more any new coal plant around the world. The policy took effect on January 1, 2017,…

Five European banks pressured not to tolerate corrupt practices at Dominican coal plant project

Mired in a major international corruption scandal, the proposed Punta Catalina coal plant in the Dominican Republic became untouchable for Deutsche Bank, ING, Santander, Société Générale and Unicredit in 2017. As the gravity of the situation surrounding the project’s construction…

2015

“Big Three” French banks rule out financing for Rampal coal project

In June, the three largest French banks, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole and Société Génerale, have said they will not finance the Rampal coal power project, on the edge of the Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh. The move comes six months after two Norwegian pension funds withdrew from India's…

Three French banks refuse to finance Galilee Basin projects

In April, BNP Paribas, Société Générale and Crédit Agricole all ruled out finance to coal mining projects in the Galilee Basin in Queenland, Australia. The planned new coal mine and port is expected to have devastating effects on the Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage Site. Read more.…

Climate breakthrough as string of banks dump coal financing

In May, Bank of America and Crédit Agricole became the first major banks to announce plans to stop financing coal mining. These announcements marked a hugely significant win and a breakthrough moment in the fight to end financing for the coal industry. The second half of 2015, in the run-up to the…

2014

Kaliningrad nuclear plans abandoned

In April 2014 the Russian authorities announced that the planned Baltic nuclear power plant project in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, a highly controversial project opposed by the local population, has been abandoned. Friends of the Earth France, whose campaign against Société Générale's…

Société Générale drops out of the Alpha Coal project

After more than a year of campaigning by Les Amis de la Terre (FoE France), Bizi! and Attac France, Société Générale announced on December 5th, 2014 that it had "suspended" its advisory mandate with GVK Hancock on the Alpha Coal project, a giant coal mine + railway + port project in Australia.…