CREO and CDPQ announce partnership to invest in sustainable economy

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The CREO Family Office Syndicate (CREO), a not-for-profit global network of family offices headquartered in New York City, and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a leading long-term institutional investor, today announced a new partnership to foster more capital into climate investments by creating new opportunities, sharing expertise and exercising stronger climate leadership within the industry. CREO (Clean, Renewable and Environmental Opportunities) enables some of the world’s leading family offices to exchange knowledge, expertise and opportunities in sustainable investment to help transition to a clean and sustainable economy. With a diverse community of active family offices and aligned investors, CREO seeks to catalyze new investments in clean energy and transportation, sustainable food, agriculture and water, and other environmental opportunities, and offers the insights of world-class experts and innovators. false false false This partnership is in line with CDPQ’s commitment to work with family offices and other innovative organizations to share best practices, market intelligence and to collaboratively create new investment opportunities. Through the deployment of its strategy on climate change in the last year, CDPQ has reduced the carbon intensity of its global portfolio by 10% while increasing investments in low-carbon assets by $10 billion. These results show CDPQ’s focus to enhance its portfolio’s sustainability in a constructive way. false false false ABOUT THE CREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE The CREO Syndicate (“CREO”) is a 501c3 public charity founded by wealth owners and family offices with a mission to address some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time affecting communities across the globe – climate change and resource scarcity – by catalyzing commercial capital into innovative solutions to protect and preserve the environment and accelerate the transition to a more sustainable economy for the benefit of the public. CREO provides education and capacity building by enabling its members and other stakeholders to share applied knowledge and expertise, resources, and investment opportunities, helps build relationships amongst aligned investors and experts, and conducts research to support the advancement of its mission. For more information visit creosyndicate.org. ABOUT CAISSE DE DÉPÔT ET PLACEMENT DU QUÉBEC Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) is a long-term institutional investor that manages funds primarily for public and parapublic pension and insurance plans. As at December 31, 2018, it held CA$309.5 billion in net assets. As one of Canada's leading institutional fund managers, CDPQ invests globally in major financial markets, private equity, infrastructure, real estate and private debt. For more information, visit cdpq.com, follow us on Twitter @LaCDPQ or consult our Facebook or LinkedIn pages.