Fighting global warming
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Basic Policies and Management System
- Establishing a shared Group charter and vision
- Formulation and operation of proprietary green guidelines
- Developing a groupwide structure for environmental management
Results and Assessments for Goals in Fiscal 2008
- Progress made on the NTT Group Principal Activity Plan Targets (by fiscal 2011)
- Environmental accounting
Environmental Impacts Overview
Environmental Data
- Prevention of global warming
- Waste reduction
- Reducing paper consumption
- Measures against environmental risk and ozone layer depletion
- Environmental management system, and others
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Reducing CO2 emissions from business operations
- Efforts to reduce electricity consumption
- Group vehicle fleet now includes 554 hybrid and natural gas vehicles (as of March 31, 2008).
- 157 NTT Group companies participated in the Ministry of the Environment's Team Minus 6% project (as of March 27, 2008).
- Eco Drive (eco-friendly driving) training sessions were held for workers driving company vehicles
- Curbing CO2 emissions through joint delivery and modal shifts in transporting cargo
Reducing society's environmental impact by offering ICT services
- Research and proposals for reducing environmental impact through ICT: Participation in government projects
- CO2 emissions fell by 120,000 tons annually by connecting different locations with videoconferencing systems
- Reduces data center power consumption with Green Data Center services
- CO2 emissions reduced by 81% compared with use of onsite monitoring personnel
Providing products and services that help customers reduce CO2 emissions
- Contributing to the global environment and corporate management through Green Integration
- Power consumption of mobile phones reduced to 1/40 that of previous models — Comparison with phones in standby mode
- Launched 1 megawatt solar power pilot schemes in Saku, Nagano Prefecture, and Kochi Prefecture
- Special paint that reduces the surface temperatures of exterior walls by 10-25°C, even under a scorching summer sun
- Using Japan's largest CASBEE assessor squad to advise on high environmental performance buildings
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Reducing waste and promoting reuse and recycling within NTT
- Reusing and recycling waste from communications equipment installation/removal
- Reducing paper resources required for telephone directories and billing statements
- 13,600 NTT DOCOMO PHS base stations recovered
Helping customers to reduce, reuse, and recycle
- Recovering and recycling used telephones and batteries
- Reselling computers and other IT devices after erasing data
- 65.34 million used mobile phones collected
- Paper consumption cut by an average of 20% by using IC cards to restrict printer access
- Recovery and recycling of nearly 13,000 tons of confidential documents using SS-BOX
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R&D contributions to energy conservation
- OSAP, a universal platform for energy conservation in the home and the workplace
- High speed/ultra-low power chip capable of trapping light for one nanosecond
- Laser module not requiring cooling system
- Developing cheaper, more compact solar panels through proprietary technologies that deliver sufficient voltage even from a single small cell
- Development of an extra long wavelength semiconductor laser light source for advanced medical, environmental, and industrial applications
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Raising awareness and spreading information inside and outside the company
- Special goo Green Label project donates 15% of website revenue
- Environmental/CSR Reporting Symposium
- Seven NTT Group companies take top slots in the 11th Nikkei Environmental Management Survey
- Supporting Miyake-jima's recovery and environmental education through MIYAKE-ECO.NET
- Participating in Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications study group, symposiums, and international conferences on environmental issues
- Informing the public about the environmental benefits of ICT services
- Study sessions for environmental personnel using remote interactive learning system
- Raising employee environmental awareness
- Participation in Black Illumination campaign
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Preserve biological diversity
- Launching the goo Home Project for growing coral in the seas of Okinawa
- 170 hectares of DOCOMO Woods established in 37 locations across Japan
Managing environmental risks
- Soil contamination and its remediation at the former site of the NTT Ibaraki R&D Center
- Addressing asbestos issues
- Establishment of three principles for the appropriate handling of chemicals
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