To achieve its Principal Activity Plan Targets for reducing its environment impacts by fiscal 2011, every year the NTT Group analyzes achievement levels against specific goals for the three areas of preventing global warming, reducing waste products, and reducing paper consumption, and uses its findings to implement improvements.
Progress made on the NTT Group Principal Activity Plan Targets1 (by fiscal 2011)
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1 Achievement level for reducing global warming is assessed as the five year average for fiscal 2009-2013. |
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CO2 emissions reduction rates improved over last year, and both telecommunications carriers and other Group companies achieved their reductions targets. Compared with the previous fiscal year, CO2 emissions reduction rates rose as a result of our deployment of energy-efficient communications equipment, efficient building and operation of communications facilities, and improvement of the CO2 emissions conversion coefficient2 for electricity usage. CO2 emissions reduction rates of telecommunications carriers (base year: fiscal 1991) CO2 emissions reduction rates of other Group companies (base year: fiscal 1991) CO2 emissions from business operations 2 Coefficients used for calculating CO2 emissions based on levels of power consumed were 0.378 kg/kWh for fiscal 2005 and 0.555 kg/kWh for fiscal 2006. For fiscal 2007-2008, the emissions coefficients of respective power suppliers were used. The CO2 emissions reduction rate for fiscal 2009 was 0.34kg/kWh and CO2 emissions from business activities were calculated using the emissions coefficients of respective power suppliers (based on fiscal 2008 data). |
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Amount of final disposal waste3 declined and reduction target was cleared. Removal of outdated equipment in conjunction with the further deployment of IP network-related equipment and base stations for 3G mobile phones resulted in more waste output than the previous year, but gains in recycling efficiency limited the rise in final disposal waste to only 20,000 tons, enabling us to meet our waste reduction targets for the year. |
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Environmental accounting
The NTT Group introduced environmental accounting in fiscal 2001 to boost the efficiency and effectiveness of its environmental conservation efforts by quantitatively determining both the cost of environmental conservation programs undertaken as part of its business activities and the returns gained. In fiscal 2009, higher levels of recycling pushed up our recycling costs by about 90 million yen compared with fiscal 2008, but these efforts allowed us to boost the amount of recycled waste by nearly 60,000 tons. A cost saving of 21.61 billion yen was also achieved through the reuse of certain resources.
According to NTT calculations, CO2 reductions derived from customer use of NTT Group flagship services like B FLET'S and FOMA amounted to nearly 9.2 million tons across society in fiscal 2009.
We are determined to further improve our environmental management through quantitative measurement and analysis of our environmental activities.
1. Scope of data
The companies subject to consolidated environment accounting are NTT, NTT East, NTT West, NTT Communications, NTT DATA, NTT DOCOMO, and their group companies (175 companies in total).
2. Applicable period
Data for fiscal 2009 report is from April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009.
Data for fiscal 2008 report is from April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008.
3. Accounting method
- Accounting is based on the NTT Group Environmental Accounting Guidelines.
These guidelines comply fully with the Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005 issued by the Ministry of the Environment. - Environmental conservation costs are expressed in monetary units and benefits in monetary units and physical quantity.
- Environmental conservation costs are tabulated separately as environmental investments and environmental costs. From fiscal 2004, depreciation costs are included in environmental costs. Personnel costs are also included in environmental costs.
- Reductions in CO2 emissions through energy conservation measures are calculated by subtracting actual emissions from estimated emissions in the event that no such measures were taken.
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| MOE Guidelines categories | Environmental investments (in millions of yen) |
Environmental expenses (in millions of yen) |
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| FY 2009 | FY 2008 | FY 2009 | FY 2008 | |
| 1. Business area costs | 7,430 | 7,530 | 19,780 | 19,810 |
| ·Pollution prevention costs | 210 | 200 | 860 | 950 |
| ·Global environmental conservation costs | 6,990 | 7,180 | 4,070 | 4,120 |
| ·Resource recycling costs | 220 | 140 | 14,840 | 14,750 |
| 2. Upstream/downstream costs | 10 | 0 | 5,320 | 4,780 |
| 3. Administration costs | 10 | 80 | 5,090 | 4,910 |
| 4. R&D costs | 5,990 | 6,170 | 11,620 | 12,730 |
| 5. Citizenship activity costs | 0 | 40 | 100 | 160 |
| 6. Environmental remediation costs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 13,440 | 13,820 | 41,900 | 42,390 |
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| MOE Guidelines categories | Economic benefits (in millions of yen) | ||
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| FY 2009 | FY 2008 | ||
| 1. Business area costs | |||
| ·Pollution prevention costs | |||
| ·Global environmental conservation costs | Cost reductions through energy conservation | 4,120 | 3,510 |
| ·Resource recycling costs | Revenues from sale of recyclable waste | 3,380 | 10,420 |
| Cost reductions through reusing dismantled communications equipment | 21,600 | 27,400 | |
| Cost reductions through reusing office waste materials | 10 | 10 | |
| 2. Upstream/downstream costs | Revenues from sale of recyclable waste | 3,280 | 630 |
| Cost reductions in postal expenses through computerization | 3,830 | 4,080 | |
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| 4. R&D costs | |||
| 5. Citizenship activity costs | |||
| 6. Environmental remediation costs | |||
| Total | 36,220 | 46,050 | |
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| MOE Guidelines categories | Quantitative benefits (in thousands of tons) | ||
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| FY 2009 | FY 2008 | ||
| 1. Business area costs | |||
| ·Pollution prevention costs | |||
| ·Global environmental conservation costs | Reductions in CO2 emissions through energy conservation measures* | 51 | 53 |
| ·Resource recycling costs | Recycled used communications equipment | 301 | 253 |
| Recycled construction waste | 258 | 255 | |
| Recycled civil engineering works waste | 180 | 166 | |
| Recycled office waste | 40 | 46 | |
| Other recycled items | 15 | 15 | |
| 2. Upstream/downstream costs | Number of communications devices collected from customers (in thousands) | 12,620 | 12,470 |
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| 4. R&D costs | |||
| 5. Citizenship activity costs | |||
| 6. Environmental remediation costs | |||
| Total | |||
| For reference: Amount of CO2 reductions across society resulting from customers using B FLET'S and FOMA services (according to NTT calculations)* | 9200 | ||
*The conversion coefficient used to calculate the CO2 emissions from power consumption in fiscal 2009 was 0.34 kg/kWh. The coefficients of respective power suppliers were used for fiscal 2008.
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