NTT America Announces Carbon Offset Program

NTT America (NTTA), a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, announced a new program designed to offset carbon dioxide emissions generated from the use of NTTA’s enterprise hosting and co-location services.

 

The program will be offered through a partnership with TerraPass and is expected to enable NTTA customers to meet their “Green IT” goals.

 

According to company officials, through its relationship with TerraPass, NTTA has calculated the estimated amount of annual power and resulting carbon pollution that enterprise hosting platforms and co-location services emit in a year.

 

Officials pointed out that all emissions calculations are based on the World Resources Institute (WRI) Greenhouse Gas Protocol, the widely used international accounting tool for greenhouse gas emissions.

 

The fee charged for TerraPass carbon offsets is used by TerraPass to fund carbon reduction programs. Officials explained that these programs include wind farms, farm power generated from methane gas digesters and landfill gas capture.

 

In addition, the NTTA program allows customers to opt in at the time of their initial purchase of NTTA services, or it can be purchased as an add-on to existing services at any time.

 

Indicating that IT hardware and data centers are a surprising leading national contributor to carbon emissions,” Vini Handler, vice president of product management and marketing at NTT America, said in a statement, “through our partnership with TerraPass we are now able to offer our customers a simple and effective way to significantly shrink the carbon footprint of their enterprise hosting and co-location services.”

 

“We are pleased to be working with NTT America to offer a carbon offset program to its customers,” said Erik Blanchford, CEO at TerraPass.

 

He also commented that in an industry known for innovation, NTTA is leading the way by showing how important it is to take responsibility for the carbon emissions generated by IT services.

 

Handler also informed that NTTA’s customer carbon off-set program is one of several Green Initiatives being undertaken by NTTA in data centers within the United States, and globally by NTT Communications.