BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy) today announced that CA Technologies has joined the BICEP coalition to advocate for innovative climate and clean energy policies.

Recently named the fifth greenest company in America by Newsweek, CA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company specializing in mainframe, virtualization, security and cloud services. By joining BICEP, CA Technologies has committed to expanding its corporate sustainability efforts by working with businesses and policymakers to enact meaningful energy and climate policies.

“BICEP has been a powerful voice for clean energy progress in Washington and beyond,” said Bill McCracken, CEO of CA Technologies. “Sustainability is simply smart business. It has enabled us, and our customers, to realize positive, measurable results. We look forward to working with BICEP to help drive effective and necessary sustainability policy changes."

BICEP, a project of Ceres, launched in 2008 with a core group of five companies, including Starbucks, Nike and Levi Strauss. & Co. It has since expanded to include leading companies representing the personal products, sports and real estate sectors such as eBay, Inc., Symantec and Jones Lang LaSalle. BICEP members have been vocal proponents of renewable energy, greener transportation and stricter pollution controls on power plants.

“The IT sector plays a critical role in the 21st century economy, and CA Technologies has shown that it can be done sustainably – and at scale. We are proud to have them as the newest member of BICEP and are certain they will be an active voice for smart policies,” said Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres. “Corporate leaders like CA Technologies and their BICEP colleagues aren’t waiting for Washington to find sustainable solutions: Instead, they’re leading the way.”

CA Technologies has been collaborating with Ceres on sustainability initiatives since 2010. The company has set ambitious goals related to waste and energy use, as well as its supply chain and corporate governance. CA Technologies has committed to purchasing 25 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2015 and has reduced it carbon footprint by approximately 25 percent since 2006 through energy saving initiatives and real estate consolidation. The company has established a Sustainability Advisory Council for its Board of Governors and issued a questionnaire for key suppliers that establishes baseline reporting and encourages them to issue sustainability reports.

More information on CA Technologies’ sustainability initiatives is available on the company’s website.

About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

About Ceres

Ceres is an advocate for sustainability leadership.  Ceres mobilizes a powerful coalition of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy. Ceres also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a network of 100 institutional investors with collective assets totaling more than $10 trillion.  For more information, visit http://www.ceres.org

About BICEP

BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy) is an advocacy coalition of businesses committed to working with policy makers to pass meaningful energy and climate legislation enabling a rapid transition to a low-carbon, 21st century economy – an economy that will create new jobs and stimulate economic growth while stabilizing our planet’s fragile climate. BICEP is a project of Ceres.

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