Toyota’s 2025 North American Environmental Sustainability Report

Toyota Motor North America releases its 2025 Environmental Sustainability Report with carbon, water, circular economy and biodiversity metrics. See the figures.

Toyota Motor North America has published its 2025 North American Environmental Sustainability Report, an annual snapshot of the company’s environmental initiatives across the United States, Canada and Mexico. The report frames Toyota’s progress around four priority areas: Carbon, Circular Economy, Water and Biodiversity.

On the carbon front, Toyota highlights its multi-pathway push toward carbon neutrality and points to a concrete operational milestone: a 32% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse-gas emissions versus FY2019. The report also notes that 83% of Toyota and Lexus models available for purchase or lease in North America now offer an electrified option, with more to come.

Dealers, too, are part of the picture. Toyota says that by the end of FY2025, 114 dealerships were participating in its Dealership Environmental Excellence Program (D.E.E.P.). According to the company, participating dealers have cut their use of electricity generated from non-renewable sources by 20%. In practice, that kind of program suggests Toyota is trying to extend sustainability work beyond factories and into the everyday footprint of sales and service networks, where improvements often add up through many small operational changes.

In circular economy efforts, Toyota reports progress on “small” materials that can become system-wide at scale. The company says it has reduced single-use plastics in on-site food service by more than 75%, meeting its five-year target, and has cut single-use packaging materials by nearly 31% compared with FY2018—above its stated five-year goal of 25%.

Water metrics are another area where the report puts numbers on operational change. Toyota says it achieved a 6.7% decrease in gallons of water withdrawn per vehicle manufactured versus FY2021, while water consumption fell 15% in FY2025 compared with FY2024 and 40% compared with FY2020. Those figures move the sustainability discussion from broad commitments to year-over-year indicators that can be tracked over time.

Biodiversity receives its own set of targets and tools. Toyota says it added 6,185 acres of pollinator habitat in FY2025 through collaboration with Pollinator Partnership (P2) and the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF), bringing the total to 20,616 acres since 2022. In earlier descriptions of the same initiative, Toyota stated a goal of enhancing at least 26,000 acres between 2021 and 2026 with support delivered through NEEF and P2. The company also notes that conservation programs at 17 sites covering more than 640 acres have achieved WHC Conservation Certification, and that it identified the top 10 facilities with high overall biodiversity significance scores using the IBAT tool—an online mapping and reporting platform built around datasets including the IUCN Red List, the World Database on Protected Areas and the World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas.

Looking ahead, Toyota says its North American team has developed targets for an 8th Environmental Action Plan scheduled to begin in FY2027, focused on three areas: striving for carbon neutrality by 2050, contributing to a circular economy, and participating in nature-positive activities. Combined with the report’s organized metrics table and its GRI content index, the update appears designed to make progress easier to follow and compare from one reporting cycle to the next.