NTT Com | CSR Report 2007 | Protecting the Environment | Environmental Impacts of Our Business Activities and Protection Measures

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Protecting the Environment

We constantly consider ways to protect the environment and accordingly provide solutions that are good for people and the environment over the medium and long terms. We will continue to assess the environmental impact of our operations and lower our loads to specific levels by 2010.

Long-Term Environmental Vision

Our Approach

We are drawing on our Long-Term Environmental Vision and our medium- and long-term plans to deploy measures that are friendly to people and the environment. We harness our telecommunications and ICT technologies in collaborating with other companies, governments, educational institutions, and nongovernment and nonprofit organizations.

Our Long-Term Environmental Vision

Humanity must restore the environment to coexist perpetually with other creatures. The task of repairing the environment embraces politics, business, education, and culture. We must transform our values and eschew the single-minded pursuit of wealth in favor of new values that prioritize the environment. Ongoing efforts to foster global dialog and mutual understanding will be central to this process.

The NTT Communications Group is convinced that it can capitalize on its global communications network and cutting-edge communications technologies to help bring about a sustainable global community that is spiritually and materially wealthy. We can do this by building a platform for worldwide dialogue, exchanging and sharing knowledge across the world and history, and by facilitating clear and open communication among all peoples.

We can drive this essential process forward by bringing industry, governments, academia, and other communities together.

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Medium- and Long-Term Plans, Results, and Targets

Initiatives that Benefit the Environment and People

We are contributing to a sustainable society by harnessing Group resources to clearly show the impact of human activities on the environment. We provide five environmental solutions. These are collecting environmental information, processing and analyzing this information, reducing environmental impact, providing environmental education and enlightenment, and creating new economic systems that foster recycling.
- Collecting environmental information
  - Conduct environmental assessments covering the air, oceans, rivers, soil, vegetation, and habitats
  - Identify environmental loads, including from factories, buildings, housing, and transportation
  Current services and solutions
  
  OCN for monitoring
  
  Home monitoring service
  
  IPv6
- Processing and analyzing environmental information
  - Categorize information and identifying problems
  - Analyze products for hazardous substances covered by the European Union’s Directive on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment
  - Perform environmental accounting that calculates the real-time impacts of cost reductions and social costs
  - Make short-term supply forecasts for biomass and other natural energy sources
  Current services and solutions
  
  GTC ECO
- Creating new economic systems that foster recycling
  - Encourage environmental protection by sharing profits with corporations, organizations, and individuals that help reduce environmental loads
  - Promote resources recycling and measures to prevent illegal waste dumping by managing everything from production to waste disposal
  - Share vehicles, office equipment, and housing facilities with various corporations, organizations, and individuals
  Current services and solutions
  
  IC Card Solution
- Providing environmental education and enlightenment
  - Make environmental information readily accessible to communities
  - Supply contents for basic environmental studies
  - Share environmental expertise and opinions with communities
  Current services and solutions
  
  Kankyou-goo
  
  OCN portal
  
  SNS blog
- Reducing environmental impact
  - Manage equipment that affects the environment, notably automatically controlled air conditioning, lighting, and elevators
  - Advise external parties on ways to reduce environmental loads so they can obtain ISO certification and help them formulate reduction measures
  - Promote reusing and recycling, exchanging unused goods and providing and manage sites that enable such transactions
  - Provide alternatives, such as by offering goods and services online, reducing the transportation of people and goods, and providing virtual experiences to replace travel
  Current services and solutions
  
  Telephone, IP and television conference
  
  Virtual call center
  
  Electronic bidding
  
  OCN for monitoring
  
  OCN theater
  
  cocoa
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Results and Targets for Measures to Reduce Environmental Impact

We established benchmarks to measure energy conservation, global warming measures, waste reductions, recycling, and paper savings. We are upgrading air-conditioning systems and deploying clean energy to cut carbon dioxide emissions. We are reducing waste by improving recycling rates for dismantled telecommunications equipment. We will start quantifying decreases in paper usage in fiscal 2007 in keeping with a policy we instituted in October 2006 to purchase paper that is half from recycled stock and half from afforested trees. By 2010, we aim to cut paper consumption per employee to 60% of fiscal 2006 levels.

		Fiscal 2006 Targets	Fiscal 2006 Results	Self-Assessment	Fiscal 2007 Goals	Fiscal 2010 Targets
Carbon dioxide emissions*		Less than 355,000	356,000 metric tons Installed super capacitors (55 units, saving 90 metric tons) Installed gas air conditioning (5 units, saving 4 metric tons) Shut wireless relay stations (13 sites) Upgraded air conditioning (136 facilities, saving 4,455 metric tons) Modified settings of machine room air conditioning(1,022 units, saving 1,118 metric tons) Replaced inefficient inverters (6 units) Upgrade special high-voltage power receiving facilities (at two buildings) Developed outlets and other devices to switch to direct current to power IP equipment Implemented power-saving measures (including those in line with Tokyo Metropolitan Government measures) Encouraged employees to wear Cool Biz fashions (saving 780 metric tons)		TargetLess than 355,000metric tons Install super capacitors (30 units) Install gas air conditioning (10 units) Shut wireless relay stations (16 sites) Upgrade air conditioning (118 facilities) Modify settings of machine room air conditioning (1,100 units) Upgrade special high-voltage power receiving facilities (at two buildings) Switch to direct current to power IP equipment Implement power-saving measures (including those in line with Tokyo Metropolitan Government measures) Keep encouraging employees to wear Cool Biz fashions (saving 1,000 metric tons)	Less than 370,000metric tons
Waste	Recycling rate for dismantled communications equipment	At least 99%	98.6% (3,190 metric tons) Chose contractors with high recycling rates		TargetAt least 99% Choose contractors with high recycling rates(particularly at outlying islands)	At least 99%
	Recycling rate for construction waste	At least 98% Others: At least 74%	Specified materials: 97.1% Others: 70.2% (1,866 metric tons of waste generated) Chose intermediate treatment facilities with high recycling rates Set up management systems at each business site		TargetSpecified materials: At least 98% Others: At least 74% Choose intermediate treatment facilities with high recycling rates Set up management systems at each business site Choose highly recyclable materials	Specific materials:At least 99% Others: At least 84%
	Recycling rate for office waste	At least 57%	57.0% (3,749 metric tons of waste generated) Chose contractors with high recycling rates Reinforced waste separation		TargetAt least 62% Choose contractors with high recycling rates Reinforce waste separation	At least 70%
Virgin pulp consumption (as office paper)		Less than 70 metric tons	188 metric tons(including 149 metric tons harvested with low environmental impact) Shifted from high-quality to recycled stock Switched to printing on both sides of paper and fitting two pages per sheet		-	-
Paper consumption (for office use)		-	15,798 A4-equivalent sheets per employee	-	TargetReduce per-employee consumption 25% Use projectors at meetings Print on both sides of paper and fit two pages per sheet	40% per employee lower than in fiscal 2006