Annual Report - Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations

CDC IXIS Asset Management currently provides its clients with
a wide range of ethical products: Nord-Sud Développement,
Insertion-Emplois, CDC Euro 21 and CDC Meridian Tomorrow.
CDC IXIS Asset Management also manages an ethical mutual
fund, Ecureuil 1,2,3 Futur, for the local saving banks (Caisse
d’Epargne).
CDC IXIS Private Equity offers its customers a fund based on
sustainable development criteria.
Véga Finance also offers a line of “ethical investment products”.
On June 28, 2001, Arese, a joint subsidiary of the Caisse des
Dépôts and Caisse d’Epargne groups, launched ASPI Eurozone,
the first of its Arese Sustainable Performance Indices (ASPI)
that are destined to become the European benchmarks for
corporate social responsibility.
Protecting the environment and fostering
local and regional sustainable development
The new framework for local development is based on a
”territorial” project that unites territorial project owners and
economic players, as well as local populations.
New financing methods for local projects are being put into
place based on investment formulas that associate both publicsector
and private-sector players. Caisse des Dépôts invests
in territorial projects that contribute to business development
and job creation, and therefore to the territory’s economic
development. These include corporate real estate projects,
the conversion of industrial and military sites, development of
mixed transportation systems, enhancing the value of property,
and preserving the environment.
Caisse des Dépôts provides support for urban development, one
of the 21st century’s most important undertakings to foster
sustainable development at the territorial level.
The Group is widely involved in the struggle against global
warming, through its French forest investments as well as
through the territorial activities of C3D such as in transportation
and real estate. For that reason, Caisse des Dépôts has
commissioned a study, The Climate Mission, on the creation of
a market in emissions rights for gases that increase global warming.
Acting to prevent social exclusion
and promote social cohesiveness
The Group has taken up the fight against exclusion
by supporting urban development and housing policies,
innovation, and job creation. It has extended its initiatives
beyond associations to include the creation and
development of micro-businesses, companies providing
jobs to the unemployed, and those providing new
services and first-time employment for young people.
Caisse des Dépôts makes a significant contribution to
the national effort to reduce the digital divide through
its ambitious program of investment in new information
and communications technologies that include electronic
databases, high-speed networks and telecommunications.
Transdev, Trans-Cité and Caisse des Dépôts are
sponsoring the “Travel better together” program that
has been put in place in ten regions in partnership with
local governments, associations, schools and
companies offering jobs to the unemployed. The goals
of the program are to:
- improve the security
of public transportation
systems and prevent
urban crime;
- educate youth with
regard to the
consequences of
delinquency in public
transportation and foster
their sense of civic
responsibility;
- provide emergency
assistance and housing
to those in need;
- train and integrate young people from troubled
neighborhoods;
- create jobs in “new urban professions”.
The program has succeeded in recruiting more than
800 young people to provide better service to travelers.
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