In 1999, the NTT Group drew up its NTT Group Global Environmental Charter to formally defi ne basic principles and policies for protecting the environment. Based on the fundamental principle that our business activities need to be compatible with protecting the environment, this Environmental Charter emphasizes the importance of combating global warming and reducing waste and paper consumption, and established a set of targets for these priority activities to be achieved by fiscal 2011. In May 2006, we drew up the NTT Group Vision for Environmental Contribution, and based on the fundamental principle of contributing to reducing environmental impacts through providing ICT services, implemented various activities aimed at achieving our CO reduction target for fiscal 2011. In November 2010, having met all of the above fiscal 2011 targets, we added the conservation of biodiversity as a basic policy to our Global Environmental Charter and drew up THE GREEN VISION 2020 as our new vision for the environment up to fiscal 2021.