To minimize the environmental impacts of its business activities, the NTT Group endeavors to gather and analyze information on the resources and energy that it consumes, the processes involved in that consumption, and the resulting environmental impacts.

The NTT Group endeavors to reduce its environmental footprint by quantitatively monitoring the environmental impacts of all processes of its business activities on a continuous basis, and by setting itself concrete numerical targets under THE GREEN VISION 2020 for reducing CO2 emissions, waste and paper consumption.

Of the 3.79 million tons of CO2 emissions generated by the NTT Group in fiscal 2012, 3.74 million tons (approximately 99%) were derived from business operation-related electricity consumption.

Of the 784,000 tons of waste generated, 764,000 tons (approximately 97%) were recycled, and the remainder was incinerated, resulting in a reduction of 6,000 tons to leave 14,000 tons of final disposal waste.

Each year, the NTT Group issues 89.28 million telephone directories throughout Japan, which translates into 49,000 tons of paper. Of those 49,000 tons, 17,000 tons are from virgin pulp.

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