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September
2020

New climate promise: CAT Financial Products Ltd. and all group companies are CO2 and climate neutral since 2020.

The climate footprint of the three companies and their employees was measured and offset through reforestation projects. In addition, we plant one tree for each investment product launched - and offer our clients to do the same. As entrepreneurs, we have a responsibility towards our environment and our descendants - to shape the future better, for the sake of our Planet.

Communication from 18th September 2020:

The climate footprint of the three companies and their employees was measured by carbon-connect Ltd., a company specializing in climate footprint measurement and compensation, and offset through reforestation projects. In addition, we plant one tree for each investment product launched - and offer each client the opportunity to plant at least one tree per product as well. As entrepreneurs, we have a responsibility towards our environment and our descendants - to shape the future better, for the sake of our Planet.

The CAT companies - CAT Financial Products Ltd., CAT Wealth Management Ltd. and CAT Growth Ltd. - cause annual CO2 emissions of just over 46 tons. This climate impact has been compensated for 2020 - and will be for the following years - through reforestation projects. This year the money will go directly into the "Cikel Brazilian Amazon REDD APD Project". The REDD APD Project was certified according to strict criteria. These include both the Rainforest Alliance and the VCS, one of the most widespread quality standards.

Furthermore, CAT Financial Products Ltd. commits to plant one tree per launched investment product. In 2019 CATFP has launched more than 1,500 investment products. We also give our clients the opportunity to plant at least one tree per product. The trees are realized through the three selected and certified reforestation projects of carbon-connect Ltd. in South America, Africa and Asia.

Everybody can and should ask themselves in their daily work: to what extent does my product, my service, my actions or my service contribute to a better tomorrow. How do my services and products contribute to meeting the sustainability goals of the United Nations? Reforestation creates jobs and fights poverty in developing countries and helps to meet the sustainability goals of the United Nations. We actively combat the threat of deforestation, erosion and a warmer planet. Together we want to plant 1 million trees through the Treelionaire-Campaign of carbon-connect Ltd. – help us!

Trees and forests have a special place in climate protection. Trees clean the air we breathe, regulate precipitation and the water cycle, cool the earth and are cheap and relatively easily reproducible CO2 reservoirs. Forests are the habitat for more than 80% of the biological diversity on earth.

Trees are the efficient CO2 reservoirs of this earth. They need CO2 for their growth, draw it from the atmosphere, store it in the form of wood and release oxygen accordingly. Therefore, the forests of our earth are also their lungs.

By calculating the footprint, i.e. the amount of emissions from the production of goods and services, processes, business travel and energy consumption, it is possible to plant the corresponding number of trees that absorb this CO2. Since CO2 knows no national borders, it is completely irrelevant where it is produced and where it is compensated.

carbon-connect Ltd. is a provider of voluntary CO2 compensation measures. With their climate label, they show committed companies’ simple ways to make a process, a product or an entire company or event climate neutral. Their partners include the Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team, Tom Lüthi, two classic car races in Lenzerheide and St. Moritz, and World Vision Switzerland. carbon-connect.ch

We are pleased to be able to make a contribution to the environment. Join in too!

CAT Financial Products Ltd.

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