Toyota is aiming to eliminate CO2 emissions completely from its car and manufacturing by 2050.
Under the Toyota Envrionment Challenge 2050, it looks at climate change, water shortages, resource depletion and degradation of biodiversity.
The company says between 2010 and 2020 it plans to reduce the average CO2 emissions from its new vehicles by more than 22 percent.
Toyota plans to announce an action plan to be put in place from April next year to the end of March 2021.
Internationally, the motoring giant is launching 14 new engines with greater thermal efficiency to produce fuel economy improvements of more than 10 percent in the motor replacements.
It plans to boost its annual global sales of fuel cell vehicles in Japan ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
The company also wants to boost the sale of hybrid cars to 1.5 million annually, and 15 million cumulatively by 2020. It currently sells 1.1 million hyrbids per year.
The 2016 Prius, which arrives in New Zealand early next year, has a combined fuel consumption of 3.4 litres to 100kms, with a new powertrain and car design to minimise emissions.
In terms of manufacturing, Toyota wants to halve its CO2 emissions per vehicle from new plants and production lines by 2020, and a third more by 2030.
Hydrogen will be used as a power source, and wind power will be produced at Japan's Tahara Plant by around 2020.
Manufacturing at Toyota's Mexico plant will bring CO2 emissions per vehicle at least 40 percent lower than its global 2001 levels.
Electricity and water usage will be minimised as well as a setting up a recycling based system. Two recycling projects in Japan will start in 2016.
Toyota has also planted 8.6 million trees in Hebei Province, China, which is suffering desertification.
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