Toyota Motor Corporation

Does the core business genuinely avoid or reduce emissions, or build climate resilience? Share of revenue that is actually 'green'. Fossil-dependent models score low.

Toyota's core fleet remains dominated by ICE and mild-hybrid vehicles; Scope 3 Category 11 emissions (use-phase) totalled 432 million MtCO₂e in FY2024, and absolute total Scope 3 fell only ~1% year-on-year, while the company lacks SBTi-approved absolute Scope 3 reduction targets — meaning its flagship product line is still a massive net emitter with only marginal annual improvement.

Credible, science-based targets (SBTi), a real net-zero plan with progress to date, and CDP disclosure — not just a dated press release.

SBTi validated Toyota's Scope 1/2 and Scope 3 Category 11 intensity targets in September 2022, and Toyota publishes annual progress data aligned with TCFD and GRI; however, the targets are intensity-based rather than absolute for Scope 3, no 1.5°C-aligned absolute Scope 3 commitment exists, and the company's CDP score is not top-tier (B-list on water security as of mid-2025), limiting the credibility of the overall target framework.

Operational footprint, labour and social practices, and governance quality across the company's own operations and supply chain.

Toyota publishes a comprehensive Sustainability Data Book, has board-level environmental and sustainability committees, first TNFD disclosure in 2024, and updated its Green Supplier Requirements in 2025 to require 5.5% annual absolute GHG reduction from direct suppliers; operational Scope 1+2 fell 6.26% in FY2024, reflecting genuine manufacturing-side progress, but governance credibility is undermined by the lobbying conduct detailed in the integrity section.

Quality of disclosure, independent third-party verification, and how much hard data backs the company's claims.

Toyota discloses detailed GHG data across Scopes 1-3 in annual Sustainability Data Books verified by third parties and aligned with GRI and TCFD, and publishes a climate public policies document; however, InfluenceMap has explicitly found that Toyota provides only a partial account of its own direct climate policy engagement, and its framing of 'electrified' vehicles conflates mild hybrids with BEVs in a way that overstates decarbonisation progress to investors.

Controversies, litigation, pollution, fossil-fuel lobbying, conflict-zone involvement and governance scandals. Higher means cleaner.

Toyota received an InfluenceMap climate lobbying score of 22/100 and was rated the third-worst company globally for anti-climate lobbying; it has lobbied against EV mandates in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and EU, funded $808,500 to climate-denying US congressional candidates over three election cycles, endorsed the Transportation Freedom Act (which would repeal US light-duty GHG standards), used a gamified internal app to mobilise 10,000 North American employees to lobby against environmental rules, and faced a class-action lawsuit over misleading hydrogen infrastructure claims.