Societe Generale Group Corporate and Social Responsibility

Objective:

• Heighten awareness and encourage the sharing of information on sustainable development topics

Priority for 2009:

• Assist the different business lines in implementing CSR policy and initiatives

Highlights in 2008:

• Climate Change Week: interviews with experts broadcast for staff during the Poznan conference (December 2008);
• 18,000 visitors to the Sustainable Development website, Planethic©;
• Numerous presentations in different Group entities;

• The Planethic© intranet¹, which enables employees to find out more about sustainable development and better understand the Group's CSR policy. Planethic© features practical tip sheets and posters on eco-friendly initiatives in the workplace (e.g. paper guide edited at the end of 2008).
• The internal newsletter, "Réussir" which is published every quarter and distributed to approximately 50,000 members of staff. The newsletter features all of the CSR initiatives underway throughout the Group, be they linked to the different business lines, to the environment or to civil society;
• An information centre entirely dedicated to Sustainable Development in the Société Générale tower in La Défense;
• An exhibition made up of nine panels on sustainable development issues which is displayed in different subsidiaries and branches, both in France and abroad;
• Talks for staff during their lunch hour which are held at the Société Générale tower and are available on video. In 2009, a series of conferences on Climate Change to heighten awareness before the Copenhagen summit, were organised :
  • in April, Patrick Criqui, Research director at the CNRS (National Center for the Scientific Research) gave an overview of ‘the energy and economic aspects of the climate change’;
  • in October, Hervé Le Treut, professor at Ecole Polytechnique and the University Pierre et Marie Curie, and director at the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace presented ‘the scientific diagnosis and issues at stake in the climate change’;
  • in December, Pascal Picq, a paleoanthropologist, presented 'the adaption of the mankind in the climate change'.
• In February 2009, François Zimeray, French Ambassador for Human Rights gave a talk on ‘Human Rights and the issues for companies’, and in April 2008 Professor Jean-Michel Servet presented the stakes of ‘Microfinance and financial inclusion’.
  
• Each year, Société Générale takes part in the Sustainable Development Week, organised by the French Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development. In 2008, several Group events were included in the "nationwide programme" (chat with the Head of Sustainable Development open to all members of staff, organic food at the canteen in Nantes, gift packs of fair-trade products for clients from the Services to Investors Department, etc.).
  
• In September 2008, Nicolas Hulot gave a talk on climate change which was attended by close to 400 employees at La Défense, as well as in Val-de-Fontenay and Nantes (were the talk was broadcast live).
  
• In December 2008, the Sustainable Development Department also organised its own Climate Change Week, at the same time as the international conference in Poznan. A series of interviews were given by different experts (Jean Jouzel, French climatologist and glaciologist and Vice-President of

Greater "ownership" amongst the Group's different divisions