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Société Générale steps up its transport policy**

Objective:

reduce the Group's ecological footprint with a more environmentally-friendly transport policy.

Priorities for 2009:

cut down on business travel,
downsize and develop a park of clean vehicles,
heighten staff awareness of the value of car-sharing and other more ecological methods of transport.

Highlights in 2008:

Green IT program devoted to developing alternatives to business travel,
setting up of an eco-comparator for business travel.

Société Générale is firmly committed to reducing its ecological footprint, notably by reducing its impact in terms of transport and business travel.

In fact, the Group has already set up various measures designed to limit those methods of transport that generate the most pollution. These measures focus on collective action and initiatives to heighten staff awareness, such as the Group's Company Travel Plan, its eco-comparator for business travel which calculates the level of CO₂ emissions according to the chosen method of transport, and its car-sharing website.

In partnership with its subsidiary ALD Automotive, Société Générale has also sought to reduce the carbon footprint of its fleet of vehicles. At the end of 2007, 80% of its French fleet consisted of diesel vehicles emitting between 109-130g/km of CO₂. By the end of 2008, average emissions for the SGPM fleet had been reduced to 121g/km of CO₂.
The Green IT program will also mean the implementation of high-performance audio and video-conferencing equipment in order to improve teleworking and to limit the need for business trips.

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** As per our commitment under the Global Compact