Taipei - Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, the world's largest electronics components manufacturer, and IBM Inc agreed Wednesday to jointly develop technologies to fight carbon emissions.

Hon Hai and IBM signed the agreement at Hon Hai headquarters in Tucheng near Taipei on delivering and deploying GreenCert, the world's first system that can calculate and certify the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by a facility.

Hon Hai is to acquire GreenCert, which consists of software and other technologies developed by IBM, Enterprise Information Management Inc and C-Lock Technology as it expands into corporate environmental services.

Mark Easton, vice president of IBM software sales, said GreenCert was developed because there is a need for accurate measurements in carbon trading and it replaces manual calculations with computation technology.

"This can help enterprises collect pollutant-emission data and allow them to conduct carbon trading and follow environment protection rules in their countries," he said at the ceremony. (dpa)