CREO and CDPQ Announce Partnership to Invest in Sustainable Economy

Montreal and New York (ots/PRNewswire) - 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.

Régine Clément, President and CEO of CREO, commented: "Through
this partnership, we are breaking down silos within the financial
industry to allow aligned family office and large institutional
investors that have a long term outlook to work together and advance
common goals including addressing climate risk and opportunities and
helping transition towards a low carbon economy for the public good.
Business as usual is no longer good enough."

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.

"We are pleased to create this new partnership with CREO, with
whom we share values, a long-term perspective and a commitment to
make sustainable investments a priority. Our joint efforts to
contribute to the transition toward a low-carbon economy, by
factoring in climate change in our investment decisions, will bring
meaningful value to both organizations and its members," said Mario
Therrien, Senior Vice-President, Strategic Partnerships - Developed
Markets.

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 (https://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 (https://cdpq.com/),
follow us on Twitter @LaCDPQ (https://twitter.com/LaCDPQ) or consult
our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/LaCDPQ/) or LinkedIn
(https://linkedin.com/company/cdpq) pages.

MEDIA CDPQ
CESALTINE GREGORIO
Senior Advisory Director
Global Media Relations
+1-212-596-6314
+1-347-241-3248
cgregorio@cdpq.com

YANN LANGLAIS-PLANTE
Advisor
Media Relations
+1-514-847-5493
ylanglaisplante@cdpq.com

MEDIA CREO, RÉGINE CLÉMENT
President and CEO of CREO
+1-917-207-6099
rclement@creosyndicate.org

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