Environmental Accounting Environmental Accounting
With the aim to efficiently and effectively promote environmental conservation efforts, NTT West Group introduced an environmental accounting system in FY 2000. This system gathers and analyzes the costs for conserving the environment in business activities, as well as the economic effects obtained from these activities. Data acquired from environmental accounting is utilized as the base data for promoting environmental management.
- *Environmental conservation costs refer to the investments and expenses required for implementing corporate environmental protection measures. Investments refer to investments in depreciable assets that are intended for environmental conservation. Expenses refer to costs incurred by environmental conservation activities.
Environmental conservation costs include items ranging from 1. Business Areas to 6. Environmental Damages. - *Environmental conservation effects (economic) refer to the economic effects on corporate management, including reduction in cost of disposal and gains from the sale of valuable resources, as a result of promoting environmental conservation.
Environmental conservation effects (economic) include items ranging from 1. Cost Reduction by Energy Saving to 4. Postage Expense Reduction through Online Correspondence.
Environmental Conservation Costs
Investment for FY 2016 was 470 million yen due to an increase in the investment amount for an automatically-controlled air-conditioning system, which is part of the global environment conservation cost.
Although the cost for the disposal of PCBs as part of the pollution control cost was reduced, the expenses for FY 2016 were 6.99 billion yen due to an increase in the expenses for the dismantled telecommunications facilities as part of the resource recycling cost.
Category | 2015 | 2016 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Investment | Expense | Investment | Expense | ||
Pollution Prevention within Business Area | - |
27.0 |
- |
17.4 |
|
Global Environment Conservation within Business Area | 0.7 |
0.2 |
4.2 |
2.0 |
|
Resource Recycling within Business Area | 0.01 |
32.1 |
0.48 |
47.0 |
|
Upstream & Downstream | - |
0.8 |
- |
0.5 |
|
Management Activities | - |
2.1 |
0.01 |
2.9 |
|
R&D | - |
- |
- |
- |
|
Social Activities | - |
0.016 |
- |
0.073 |
|
Environmental Damages | - |
- |
- |
- |
|
0.7 |
62.2 |
4.7 |
69.9 |
Environmental Conservation Effects (Economic)
Environmental conservation (economic) effects for FY 2016 reached 13.75 billion yen, which exceeded the result of FY 2015.
Category | 2015 | 2016 | |
---|---|---|---|
Cost Reduction by Energy Saving | 19.4 |
32.0 |
|
Revenue from Recycling | 14.5 |
25.4 |
|
Dismantled Telecommunications Facilities | 41.7 |
51.0 |
|
Office Wastes | 1.4 |
0.2 |
|
Postage Expense Reduction through Online Correspondence | 29.4 |
29.0 |
|
106.4 |
137.5 |