Our purpose "As a subsidiary of French Caisse des Dépôts, CDC Investissement Immobilier, thanks to the commitment and agility of its team, creates sustainable value by combining financial performance with responsibility."
As a responsible long term investor, we ensure that environmental and social criteria are integrated into all our investments.
The real estate portfolio we manage is a solid contributor to the Caisse des Dépôts Group’s extra-financial indicators on energy, carbon and biodiversity.
Our environmental commitments
CDC Real Estate Investment has a strong ambitions in favor of the environment. It materializes on multiple actions such as the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, energy sobriety, biodiversity, adaptation to climate risks, and better water management.
✅ CLIMATE
Alongside Caisse des Dépôts Group, CDC Investissement Immobilier has committed to a scenario of limiting the increase of ground temperature to 1.5°C, in line with the Paris Agreements. After an initial 20% decrease in the carbon footprint of its portfolio between 2014 and 2020, CDC Investissement Immobilier is continuing the decarbonization of its property portfolio.
This is materialized by an additional commitment to reduce the carbon intensity of tertiary and residential real estate assets by another 15% by 2025. First step to an ambitious reduction of -50% in the portfolio’s carbon intensity by 2030. To meet these objectives, a major work plan has been defined and will be implemented before 2030. The latter will be used in particular to decarbonize heating production facilities (elimination of gas as soon as possible) and to promote greater energy sobriety by insulating buildings or replacing obsolete equipment with more efficient ones.
The objectives taken by CDC Investissement Immobilier are part of the climate policy of the Caisse des Dépôts Group, which is a founding member of the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA).
✅ LABELS AND CERTIFICATIONS
100% of CDC Investissement Immobilier's new projects benefit from certification or labeling based on environmental criteria (for example: NF HQE, BREEAM, Biodivercity, Bepos, etc.).
✅ MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE
CDC Investissement Immobilier teams are regularly trained on environmental topics in order to maintain a knowledge base allowing the proper implementation of its strategy.
✅ ENERGY
CDC Real Estate Investment’s investment strategy covers various asset categories :
- high-performing new assets ;
- existing buildings with an ambitious restructuring project ;
- existing buildings on which an action plan improving energy and carbon performance will be implemented (lighter work than a heavy restructuring).
Furthermore, the work implemented by CDC Investissement Immobilier must allow for :
- the remowal of energy sieves from its residential portfolio ;
- respect the tertiary eco-energy device for its tertiary portfolio.
✅ BIODIVERSITY
CDC Investissement Immobilier is committed to :
Aware of the threat to life, particularly due to human activities, CDC Investissement Immobilier has decided to make biodiversity one of its strategic axis. To achieve it, measurement of the impact and potential for hosting biodiversity started at the end of 2024. This supports the identification of areas of improvement of the portfolio and to prioritize actions to be taken in order to promote the conservation and welcome of biodiversity. In addition, CDC Investissement Immobilier has also committed to :
- Respect the "Zero Net Artificialization" on its direct real estate portfolio.
- Aim for 100% of new projects labeled Biodivercity.
CDC Investissement Immobilier is also one of the strategic partners of the Biodiversity Impulsion Group – program for applied research and collective actions in favor of biodiversity.
Our commitments
to society
Attentive to the well-being and safety at work of its employees, CDC Investissement Immobilier guarantees :
- An egalitarian recruitment process
- Similar remuneration for comparable positions and equivalent seniority levels
- Diversity of teams
- Gender parity
Mindful of contributing to the common effort in terms of sustainable development, CDC Investissement Immobilier encourages its employees :
- environmentally friendly travels, especially by bicycle
- the progressive achievement of zero paper through the development of paperless media
CDC Investissement Immobilier makes sure that all its service providers undertake social, hygiene, safety and health commitments in particular in forward sales and construction contracts.
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