- Site to
feature environmental videos and stories highlighting company
activities
- 2022
annual report is streamlined and now includes environmental metrics
data
PLANO,
Texas, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Respect
for the planet is one of Toyota Motor North America's (TMNA) core
values. The company demonstrates this value by striving to go
beyond zero environmental impact to creating a net positive impact
for society and the planet.
TMNA today launched an updated website to better highlight how
the company strives to build this more sustainable future. The
website presents Toyota's annual North American Environmental
Reports as well as feature stories and videos that bring to life
the people, partnerships and inside stories of innovation behind
the company's progress. The 2022 report, TMNA's 21st, has been
updated and streamlined, now including additional data metrics
tables to help readers better understand the company's progress on
its environmental sustainability goals across its operations and
product lines in North
America.
The updated environmental sustainability site can be found at
Environmental Strategy (toyota.com). The 2022 annual report with
the additional metrics tables can be found within the updated
website at Data & Report Hub (toyota.com).
"As a company, we're always striving to do better," said
Kevin Butt, senior director of
Environmental Sustainability. "Both our updated site and new annual
report formats are designed to help our stakeholders better
understand our goals and activities in environmental
sustainability. The new charts and features will highlight the
progress we are making through relevant data and relatable
stories."
New to this year's annual report are three features designed to
improve transparency around Toyota's environmental sustainability
program:
- A list of global mid-term milestones toward the Toyota
Environmental Challenge 2050, such as reaching carbon neutrality at
manufacturing plants by FY2035 and reducing global average CO2
emissions from new vehicles by 35% or more by FY2030 (Page 20)
- A comprehensive Environmental Metrics Table quantifies
performance in areas such as CO2 emissions, energy and water
consumption, waste, biodiversity, air quality and compliance (Page
34)
- A Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) content index that maps the
company's progress in relation to the GRI standards (Page 36)
TMNA's efforts in environmental sustainability are driven by
five-year "Environmental Action Plans," which outline the
strategies and actions the company will take to reach
sustainability goals in four critical focus areas: Carbon, Water, Materials and Biodiversity.
Currently, Toyota is on its 7th Environmental Action
Plan (FY2022-2026).
Key achievements in the four critical focus areas in 2022
include:
Carbon
- 52% of
Toyota and Lexus models have an electrified option, and more are on
the way
-
Toyota's 1st mass-market battery electric
vehicle, the Toyota bZ4X, went on sale in the U.S. and Canada
-
22% of TMNA's electricity consumption to come from
renewable sources starting in
2023
-
1st Toyota port operation in the world to
use 100% renewable electricity from onsite generation is Toyota
Logistics Services in Long Beach,
California. Explore the details here Toyota Port
Facility Nears Carbon Neutrality
Water
- 132
million gallons of water was restored to the Hardy River as part of
a partnership with the Nature Conservancy to restore water to the
Colorado River Delta
-
Discover how Toyota operations conserve water Saving Fresh
Water (toyota.com)
Materials
- 19%
reduction in the weight of plastic packaging procured between
FY2018 and FY2022
- 93%
of all waste was recycled, reused or repurposed in
2021
Biodiversity
- 1,922
acres of pollinator habitat were developed
-
Toyota team members in West
Virginia champion biodiversity education Toyota
West Virginia's Outdoor
Classroom
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE: TM), creator of the Prius hybrid and the Mirai
fuel cell vehicle, is committed to building vehicles for the way
people live through our Toyota and Lexus brands, and directly
employs more than 48,000 people in North
America (more than 39,000 in the U.S.).
Over the past 60 years, Toyota has assembled nearly 43
million cars and trucks in North
America at the company's 13 manufacturing plants. By 2025,
the company's 14th plant in North
Carolina will begin to manufacture automotive batteries for
electrified vehicles.
Through our more than 1,800 North American dealerships
(nearly 1,500 in the U.S.), Toyota sold more than 2.6 million cars
and trucks (more than 2.3 million in the U.S.) in 2021, of which,
more than a quarter were electrified vehicles (hybrids, plug-ins
and fuel cells).
Media Contact:
Aaron Fowles
aaron.fowles@toyota.com
Cindy Knight
cindy.knight@toyota.com
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