Item 1. Business

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Item 1. Business

Prologis, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed REIT and is the sole general partner of Prologis, L.P. through which it holds substantially all of its assets. We operate Prologis, Inc. and Prologis, L.P. as one enterprise and, therefore, our discussion and analysis refers to Prologis, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries, including Prologis, L.P. We invest in real estate through wholly owned subsidiaries and other entities through which we co-invest with partners and investors ("co-investment ventures"). We have a significant ownership interest in the co-investment ventures, which are either consolidated or unconsolidated based on our level of control of the entity.

Prologis, Inc. began operating as a fully integrated real estate company in 1997 and elected to be taxed as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Internal Revenue Code” or “IRC”). We believe the current organization and method of operation enable Prologis, Inc. to maintain its status as a REIT. Prologis, L.P. was also formed in 1997.

We operate, manage and measure the operating performance of our properties on an owned and managed (“O&M”) basis. Our O&M portfolio includes our consolidated properties as well as properties owned by our unconsolidated co-investment ventures, which we manage. We make operating decisions based on our total O&M portfolio as we manage the properties without regard to their ownership. We also evaluate our results based on our proportionate economic ownership of each property included in the O&M portfolio (“our share”).

Included in our discussion below are references to funds from operations (“FFO”) and net operating income (“NOI”), neither of which are United States (“U.S.”) generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). See Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for a reconciliation of Net Earnings Attributable to Common Stockholders/Unitholders in the Consolidated Statements of Income to our FFO measures and a reconciliation of NOI to Operating Income in the Consolidated Statements of Income, the most directly comparable GAAP measures.

Our corporate headquarters is located at Pier 1, Bay 1, San Francisco, California 94111, and our other principal office locations are in Amsterdam, Denver, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.

Our Internet address is www.prologis.com. All reports required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) are available and can be accessed free of charge through the Investor Relations section of our website. The common stock of Prologis, Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the ticker “PLD” and is a component of the Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) 500.

THE COMPANY

Prologis is the global leader in logistics real estate with a focus on high-barrier, high growth markets. We own, manage and develop well-located, high-quality logistics facilities in 20 countries across four continents. Our portfolio centers on the world’s most vibrant centers of commerce and our scale across these locations allows us to better serve our customers’ diverse logistics requirements.

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Logistics supply chains remain essential to our customers and the global economy. Long-term trends, including the growth of e-commerce and modernization of the supply chain, continue to drive demand toward creating supply chain resiliency through leasing additional space to store and distribute goods. This sustained demand has contributed to meaningful rent growth and low vacancy rates in recent years. We believe this demand is driven by three primary factors: (i) the re-positioning of our customer supply chains to accommodate the shift toward e-commerce and heightened service expectations; (ii) growth in overall consumption and households; and (iii) our customers’ increased focus on building supply chain efficiency. We believe these factors will sustain demand and low vacancy rates over the long term. In the near term, our proprietary metrics reveal renewed activity in customer leasing decisions as we entered 2025 despite the current economic and geopolitical environment.

Our teams actively manage our portfolio by providing comprehensive real estate services, including leasing, property management, development, acquisitions and dispositions. We invest significant capital into new logistics properties through acquisitions and development activity, including both built-to-suit and speculative development and redevelopment of properties into industrial properties and data centers. Proceeds from property dispositions, generally achieved by contributing newly developed properties to our co-investment ventures and selling of non-strategic properties to third parties, enable us to recycle capital back into our ongoing investment activities.

While the majority of our properties in the U.S. are wholly owned, we hold a significant ownership interest in properties both in the U.S. and internationally through our investment in co-investment ventures. Partnering with many of the world’s largest institutional investors through co-investment ventures allows us to expand our investment capacity, enhance and diversify our real estate returns and mitigate our exposure to foreign currency movements.

Our scale and customer-focused strategy have compelled us to expand the services we provide. Our 1.3 billion square foot portfolio has provided the foundation upon which we have built a platform of solutions to address challenges that our customers face in global fulfillment today. Through Prologis Essentials, we provide solutions to meet our customers’ operations and energy and sustainability needs. Our customer experience teams, proprietary technology and strategic partnerships are foundational to all aspects of our Prologis Essentials offerings. These resources allow us to provide our customers with unique and actionable insights and tools to help them make progress on sustainability goals and drive greater efficiency in their operations. Moreover, the principles of Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) are ingrained in our business strategy through our integrated approach to global impact and sustainability, which we believe creates value for our customers, investors, employees, and communities.

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Our Global Presence

At December 31, 2024, we owned or had investments in, on a wholly owned basis or through co-investment ventures, properties and development projects expected to total approximately 1.3 billion square feet across the following geographies:

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Throughout this discussion, we reflect amounts in the U.S. dollar, our reporting currency. Included in these amounts are consolidated and unconsolidated investments denominated in foreign currencies, principally the British pound sterling, Canadian dollar, euro and Japanese yen that are impacted by fluctuations in exchange rates when translated to U.S. dollars. We mitigate our exposure to foreign currency fluctuations by investing outside the U.S. through co-investment ventures, borrowing in the functional currency of our subsidiaries and utilizing derivative financial instruments.

R****EPORTABLE SEGMENTS

Our business comprises two reportable segments: Real Estate (Rental Operations and Development) and Strategic Capital.

Below is information summarizing consolidated activity within our segments over the last three years (in millions):

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NOI from the Real Estate Segment is calculated directly from the Consolidated Financial Statements as Rental Revenues and Development Management and Other Revenues less Rental Expenses and Other Expenses. NOI from the Strategic Capital Segment is calculated directly from the Consolidated Financial Statements as Strategic Capital Revenues less Strategic Capital Expenses.

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A developed property moves into the operating portfolio when it meets our definition of stabilization, which is the earlier of when a property that was developed has been completed for one year, is contributed to a co-investment venture following completion or is 90% occupied. Amounts represent our total expected investment (“TEI”) upon stabilization, which includes the estimated cost of development or expansion, including land, construction and leasing costs.

Real Estate Segment

Rental Operations. Rental operations comprise the largest component of our reportable segments and generally contributes 90% to 95% of our consolidated revenues, earnings and FFO. We collect rent from our customers through operating leases, including reimbursements for the majority of our property operating costs. For leases that commenced during 2024 within the consolidated operating portfolio, the weighted average lease term was 64 months. We expect to generate earnings growth by increasing rents, maintaining high occupancy rates and controlling expenses. The primary driver of our revenue growth will be the rolling of in-place leases to current market rents when leases expire, as discussed further below. We believe our active portfolio management, combined with the skills of our property, leasing, maintenance, energy, sustainability and risk management teams allow us to maximize NOI across our portfolio. Substantially all of our consolidated rental revenue, NOI and cash flows from rental operations are generated in the U.S.

Development. Our development business provides the opportunity to build modern logistics facilities that address the evolving requirements of our customers while deepening our presence in our target markets. We believe we have a competitive advantage due to: (i) the strategic locations of our global land bank and redevelopment sites for the development of future industrial properties or data centers; (ii) the development expertise of our local teams; (iii) the depth of our customer relationships; (iv) our ability to integrate sustainable design features that provide operational efficiencies for our customers; and (v) our procurement capabilities that allow us to secure high-demand construction materials at a lower cost. Successful development and redevelopment efforts provide significant earnings growth as projects are leased, generate income and increase the value of our Real Estate Segment. Generally, we develop properties in the U.S. to hold for the long term or to contribute to our unconsolidated co-investment venture, and outside the U.S. to contribute to our unconsolidated co-investment ventures.

Strategic Capital Segment

We partner with many of the world’s largest institutional investors through co-investment ventures. The business is capitalized through private and public equity, that is comprised of 95% open-ended ventures, long-term ventures and two publicly traded vehicles (Nippon Prologis REIT, Inc. in Japan and FIBRA Prologis, which controls Terrafina, also a publicly traded FIBRA in Mexico). We align our interests with our partners by holding significant ownership interests in the co-investment ventures. Nine of the co-investment ventures are unconsolidated entities, and one is consolidated, with our ownership in the co-investment ventures ranging from 15% to 55%. As the majority of our investments are in unconsolidated co-investment ventures, this structure allows us to reduce our exposure to foreign currency movements for investments outside the U.S. Management of the unconsolidated co-investment ventures comprises our Strategic Capital Segment.

This segment generates durable, long-term cash flows and generally contributes 5% to 10% of our consolidated revenues, earnings and FFO, excluding promotes. We generate strategic capital revenue from our unconsolidated co-investment ventures, principally through asset management and property management services. Revenue earned from asset management fees is primarily driven by the quarterly valuation of the real estate properties owned by the respective ventures. We earn additional revenues by providing leasing, acquisition, construction management, development and disposition services. The majority of the strategic capital revenues are generated outside the U.S. In certain ventures, we also have the ability to earn revenues through incentive fees (“promotes” or “promote revenues”) periodically during the life of a venture, upon liquidation of a venture or upon stabilization of individual venture assets based primarily on the total return of the investments over certain financial hurdles. Promote revenues are recognized when earned at the end of the promote period for the specific co-investment ventures. We plan to grow this business and increase revenues by increasing our assets under management in existing or new ventures.

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FUTURE GROWTH

We believe that the quality and scale of our portfolio, our ability to develop our land bank and redevelopment sites, our strategic capital business, the depth of our customer relationships and the strength of our balance sheet are differentiators that allow us to drive growth in revenues, NOI, earnings, FFO and cash flows.

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Net effective rent ("NER") is calculated at the beginning of the lease using estimated total cash base rent to be received over the term and annualized and excludes fair value lease amortization from acquisitions. Amounts derived in a currency other than the U.S. dollar have been translated using the average rate from the previous twelve months.

Rent change represents the percentage change in net effective rental rates (average rate over the lease term), on new and renewed leases, commenced during the period compared with previous net effective rental rates in that same space.

Rent Growth. We have experienced positive rent growth every quarter since 2013. As a result of several years of increases in market rents, our in-place leases have considerable upside potential to capture these higher rents and to drive future organic NOI growth. We estimate that our share of the lease mark-to-market is approximately 30% (on an NER basis), which represents the amount by which current market rents exceed our in-place rents based on our share of the O&M portfolio at December 31, 2024. This lease mark-to-market has remained meaningfully positive despite recent quarters of lower or even negative market rental growth due to the compounded nature of market rent growth. Therefore, even without further market rent growth, we would expect our lease renewals to result in higher future rental income.

Value Creation from Development. The global nature of our development program provides a wide landscape of opportunities to pursue based on our judgment of market conditions, opportunities and risks. One of the ways in which we create value is through our focus on sourcing well-located land and redevelopment sites through acquisition opportunities. This strategy has enabled us to create value by converting income-producing assets acquired for redevelopment into industrial properties, known as Covered Land Plays ("CLPs"), as well as converting existing industrial properties into higher uses, such as data centers.

Based on our current estimates, our consolidated land and other real estate investments, including options and CLPs, have the potential to support the development of $36.9 billion ($41.5 billion on an O&M basis) of TEI of newly developed buildings. We measure the estimated value creation of a development project as the stabilized value above our TEI. As properties are completed and leased, we expect to capture the value creation principally through gains realized through contributions of these properties to unconsolidated co-investment ventures and increases in the NOI of the consolidated portfolio.

Strategic Capital Advantages. The co-investment ventures provide capital from third parties that allows us to grow our O&M portfolio, contribute to self-funding our development activities through the sale or contribution of newly developed assets to these vehicles and produce substantial fees for our management of the assets. We raise capital to support the long-term growth of the co-investment ventures while maintaining our own substantial investments in these vehicles. At December 31, 2024, the gross book value of the operating portfolio held by our nine unconsolidated co-investment ventures was $56.3 billion across 548 million square feet.

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G&A Expenses is a line item in the Consolidated Financial Statements. Adjusted G&A expenses is calculated from our

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Consolidated Financial Statements as G&A Expenses and Strategic Capital Expenses, less expenses under the Prologis Promote Plan (“PPP”) and property-level management expenses for the properties owned by the ventures.

Balance Sheet Strength. We have a long-held strategy to build and maintain a strong and flexible balance sheet by using conservative levels of financial leverage. At December 31, 2024, the weighted average remaining maturity of our consolidated debt was 9 years and the weighted average interest rate was 3.1%. At December 31, 2024, we had total available liquidity of $7.4 billion. We continue to maintain low leverage as a percentage of our real estate investments and our market capitalization. As a result of our low leverage, available liquidity and investment capacity in the co-investment ventures, we have significant ability to capitalize on opportunistic value-added investments as they arise.

Our Scale Drives Efficiency. We have scalable systems and infrastructure in place to grow both our consolidated and O&M portfolios with limited incremental G&A expense. We use adjusted G&A expenses as a percentage of the O&M portfolio (based on gross book value) to measure and evaluate the overhead costs associated with the O&M portfolio. We believe we can continue to grow NOI and strategic capital revenues organically and through accretive development and acquisition activity while further reducing G&A as a percentage of our investments in real estate.

Staying “Ahead of What’s Next™”. We are focused on creating value beyond real estate by enhancing our customers’ experience, leveraging our scale in procurement and innovating through data analytics and digitization efforts. This includes investments in early and growth-stage companies that are focused on emerging technologies for the logistics sector through Prologis Ventures, our corporate venture capital group. Our Prologis Essentials platform provides our customers with solutions through services and products that address their operations and energy and sustainability needs, simplify their decision-making and support them in achieving their environmental goals.

Competition

Real estate ownership is highly fragmented, and we face competition from many owners and operators. Competitively priced logistics space could impact our occupancy rates and have an adverse effect on how much rent we can charge, which in turn could affect our operating results. We face competition regarding our capital deployment activities, including regional, national and global operators and developers. We also face competition from investment managers for institutional capital within our strategic capital business.

Despite the competition, our global reach and local market knowledge over the years have given us distinct competitive advantages, including the following:

a portfolio of properties strategically located in markets characterized by large population densities, growing consumption and high barriers to entry, typically near large labor pools and extensive transportation infrastructure, including our Last Touch® facilities;

the ability to leverage the organizational scale and structure of our 1.3 billion square foot O&M portfolio to provide a single point of contact for our multi-market customers to address their needs through our in-house global Customer Led Solutions Team;

services and solutions offered through Prologis Essentials to assist our customers with their operations and energy and sustainability needs and at the same time enhancing the value of our real estate;

a strategically located, global land bank and redevelopment sites that have the potential to support the development of $41.5 billion of TEI of new logistics space on an O&M basis, including build-to-suit development and redevelopment as industrial properties or data centers;

capabilities to convert properties to data centers in key markets, with total TEI of $0.9 billion on an O&M basis currently under development;

local teams with the expertise, experience and relationships to lease our properties and deploy capital advantageously, supported by our in-house government and community affairs and entitlement teams;

development of logistics facilities with sustainable design features that meet customer needs for efficient, high-quality buildings while enabling them to make progress on their own sustainability goals;

relationships and successful track record with current and prospective investors in our strategic capital business that is comprised of 95% open-ended ventures, long-term ventures and two publicly traded vehicles;

a market intelligence team that allows us to track business conditions in real time, proactively pursue market opportunities and disruptions alike, and develop revenue-generating capabilities;

an investment in technology and talent to support our sustainability objectives, including expanding our efforts around renewable energy;

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an internal venture capital group, Prologis Ventures, through which we invest in growth stage companies focused on innovating across the logistics sector; and

a strong balance sheet and credit ratings, coupled with significant liquidity, borrowing capacity and long-term fixed debt with low rates.

Customers

At December 31, 2024, in our Real Estate Segment representing our consolidated properties, we had more than 4,000 customers occupying 646 million square feet of logistics operating properties (6,500 customers occupying 1.3 billion square feet for our O&M portfolio). Our broad customer base represents a spectrum of international, national, regional and local logistics users who operate across various industries, providing diverse goods to consumers throughout the globe.

The strategic location of our global portfolio gives us a unique ability to provide real estate solutions that support our customers' supply chains and help them meet end-consumer delivery expectations. Our properties are positioned at critical points in the supply chain, most notably our infill and Last Touch® facilities, which are located within and adjacent to major cities to ensure same-day delivery to consumers. Additionally, we own import and national distribution centers with access to major seaports and intermodal hubs, as well as regional distribution centers that facilitate broader market reach.

Below are the primary categories of goods in our consolidated real estate properties at December 31, 2024:

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Primary categories do not sum to 100% as the difference is attributable to customers that do not clearly fall into a single category. Additionally, primary categories are listed in order of the largest percentage of NER for each category type.

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The following table details our top 25 customers for our consolidated and O&M real estate properties at December 31, 2024 (square feet in millions):

Consolidated - Real Estate SegmentOwned and Managed
Top Customers% of NERTotal Occupied Square FeetTop Customers% of NERTotal Occupied Square Feet
1. Amazon6.0341. Amazon4.946
2. Home Depot2.8172. Home Depot1.819
3. FedEx1.773. FedEx1.311
4. UPS1.064. DHL1.113
5. Geodis0.965. Geodis1.115
6. NFI Industries0.746. CEVA Logistics1.013
7. DHL0.747. GXO0.810
8. Walmart0.768. UPS0.89
9. Lululemon0.729. Maersk0.87
10. GigaCloud0.7310. Kuehne + Nagel0.79
Top 10 Customers15.989Top 10 Customers14.3152
11. Pepsi0.6411. DVS A/S0.78
12. GXO0.6412. Walmart0.68
13. Wayfair0.6613. NFI Industries0.54
14. Ryder0.6314. Pepsi0.44
15. Maersk0.5315. GigaCloud0.43
16. DVS A/S0.5216. Lululemon0.42
17. Western Post0.5217. Mercado Libre0.45
18. Imperial Dade0.5218. Ryder0.44
19. Berkshire Hathaway0.4319. Burlington Stores0.43
20. CEVA Logistics0.4320. Samsung0.45
21. The Clorox Company0.4321. DB Schenker0.46
22. Samsung0.4322. Wayfair0.46
23. Lasership, Inc.0.4123. ZOZO0.45
24. Kellanova0.4324. Nippon Express0.44
25. Tesla0.3125. Imperial Dade0.32
Top 25 Customers23.0132Top 25 Customers20.8221

In our Strategic Capital Segment, we view our partners and investors as our customers. At December 31, 2024, we had 155 investors in our private equity ventures, several of which invest in multiple ventures.

Our People

Our people are the foundation of our business. They implement our strategy and create value for our customers and shareholders. We seek to recruit and retain talented employees with varied experiences and perspectives. The intent is to create an inclusive and high-performing culture where each employee can do their best work and drive our collective success.

We are committed to inclusion and diversity. We share our strategy with our employees and welcome their ideas for improvement. We conduct annual pay equity analyses that aim to address differences in compensation not explained by relevant job factors.

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The following charts display our workforce demographics by levels of seniority at December 31, 2024:

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(1) Managers include employees with manager, director or vice president titles. Senior leaders include employees with senior vice president or higher titles.

We align employees’ goals with our overall strategic direction to create a clear link between individual efforts and the long-term success of the company. We communicate at all levels of the organization throughout the year about company goals and strategic initiatives to ensure awareness and alignment. We then provide continual feedback to all employees on their progress towards those goals as well as budget for external learning and stretch opportunities to support their growth.

Providing our employees with learning and development opportunities through training, education and mentorship is critical to our continued ability to innovate. In 2024, more than 1,800 employees completed more than 15,400 hours of company-provided or company-sponsored learning and development training.

We provide opportunities for our employees to share their insights and perspectives on our company and their work experience. Our most recent employee engagement pulse survey, completed in September 2024, with a participation rate of 92%, indicated that 85% of Prologis employees are engaged based on their positive response to the questions that comprise our engagement driver index.

We strive to cultivate a healthy and safe working environment for our employees. We provide workplace flexibility with accountability as determined by role. For those employees who work on-site, we have protocols in place to help ensure a safe working environment. We continue to attract and retain talent in the industry through competitive compensation, a robust benefits package, pathways to career advancement, talent recognition and individual development planning.

The following table summarizes our total number of employees at December 31, 2024:

Geographies
U.S. (1)1,595
Other Americas206
Europe627
Asia275
Total2,703

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This includes employees who were based in the U.S. but also support other geographies.

Prologis employees are not organized under collective bargaining agreements, other than in Brazil, France and Spain, and there is a works council in France.

C****ODE OF ETHICS AND BUSINESS CONDUCT

We maintain a Code of Ethics and Business Conduct applicable to our board of directors (the “Board”) and all of our officers and employees, including the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer and the principal accounting officer, and other people performing similar functions. A copy of our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct is available on our website, www.prologis.com. In addition to being accessible through our website, copies of our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct can be obtained, free of charge, upon written request to Investor Relations, Pier 1, Bay 1, San Francisco, California 94111. Any amendments to or waivers of our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct that apply to the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer, the principal accounting officer, or other people performing similar functions, and that relate to any matter enumerated in Item 406(b) of Regulation S-K, will be disclosed on our website.

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GLOBAL IMPACT AND SUSTAINABILITY

The principles of ESG are ingrained in our business strategy through our integrated approach to global impact and sustainability, which we believe creates value for our customers, investors, employees and communities. As we look toward the future, we have set sustainability goals and objectives that demonstrate our ambition, create accountability and drive alignment with our business strategy. These goals include the utilization of renewable energy sources, along with sustainable development and redevelopment, that create energy savings and reduce our environmental footprint. We have also set goals and objectives to support the communities in which we do business and employ strong governance practices.

Environmental Sustainability

We develop modern and efficient buildings with state-of-the-art technology to stay ahead of our customers’ needs, advance our ability to meet future structural, transportation and energy requirements, and make progress on our own sustainability goals and objectives. This includes new development and redevelopment of buildings that align with leading sustainable building standards and the implementation of solutions and services such as onsite solar generation, energy storage, heat pumps, cool roofs, LED lighting, EV charging stations and other mobility solutions, recycling and xeriscaping. We regularly talk with customers on how Prologis can work with them to enhance the sustainability of their operations. We believe these services and solutions can deliver operational efficiencies, reduce energy and water consumption and decrease greenhouse gas emissions within our customers’ operations and across our own portfolio.

We have committed to: (i) installing LED lighting within 100% of our eligible new developments and redevelopments and across 80% of our eligible O&M operating properties by 2025; (ii) installing 1 gigawatt of solar generation and storage capacity by 2025 within our O&M portfolio; and (iii) obtaining sustainable building certifications for 100% of our eligible new developments and redevelopments. We believe our Prologis Essentials LED and SolarSmart solutions, which provide our customers with energy solutions and savings through efficient lighting and solar panels on our rooftops, help reduce the environmental footprint of our customers and accelerate our progress in these areas.

In 2024, we installed or were scheduled to install LED lighting within 100% of our eligible new developments and redevelopments and LED lighting across approximately 79% of our eligible logistics facilities (based on square feet) within our O&M operating properties at December 31, 2024. This metric excludes the properties owned by Terrafina, which FIBRA Prologis obtained control of in August 2024. At December 31, 2024, 626 megawatts of solar generation and storage capacity were installed within our O&M portfolio. To fund our sustainable development activities, we have utilized the proceeds from certain senior notes issuances to finance green projects eligible under our green bond framework. For development properties in our O&M portfolio that were approved by our Investment Committee after June 2021 and that reached stabilization during 2024, we certified 69% of our eligible developments and redevelopments with sustainable building certifications and 31% were scheduled for sustainable building certification, totaling 100% of eligible developments and redevelopments.

Social Impact

We are committed to social responsibility and strengthening relationships important to our business through customer partnerships, investor outreach, community involvement, supplier engagement and labor solutions, as discussed above. We work in partnership with local leaders, institutions and organizations to create jobs and job training programs, expand opportunities for students with diverse backgrounds to study real estate, promote health and safety and enhance recreational and transit infrastructure. We believe these efforts help create a more stable and predictable business environment for Prologis and our customers, drive economic development and support social wellness and well-being in the communities we serve.

For our customers, where recruitment and retention of logistics talent is a key challenge, we are helping build a talent pipeline through our Community Workforce Initiative (“CWI”), founded in 2018. The CWI is a talent development program that advances the skills and capabilities of logistics talent, with an emphasis on revitalizing career pathways and creating economic opportunities in the communities where we operate. In 2018, we set a goal to train 25,000 individuals by 2025 by partnering with leading public sector organizations and leveraging digital learning technologies to develop innovative training solutions. We met this goal in 2023, two years early.

Beginning in 2019, we committed to spending 75,000 hours supporting our local communities by 2025. To achieve this goal, we enable our employees to spend 40 working hours a year to volunteer, including at our company-sponsored day of service where employees around the globe volunteer on projects to help in their local communities. At December 31, 2024, we have contributed approximately 74,300 hours towards our goal. In addition, we encourage our employees to support their local communities outside of working hours with our Dollars for Doers and other matching gifts programs, through which Prologis donates to eligible charities and non-profit organizations based on employees’ personal volunteer hours or dollar donations.

Governance Practices

We strive to promote a culture of uncompromising integrity, including through our governance practices and corporate oversight. Our Board independence and diversity, open communication with our stockholders and risk management framework that supports our investment and process decisions all serve to mitigate risk and preserve value for our company.

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Over the past ten years we have onboarded seven new directors with a breadth of experience, increasing the ethnic, gender and geographical diversity of the Board. The charters of our Board Governance and Nomination Committee and Talent and Compensation Committee provide that such committees have specific oversight over global impact and sustainability matters and inclusion and diversity matters, respectively. Effective January 1, 2024, we added our Chief Energy and Sustainability Officer to our management Executive Committee to support alignment between our real estate business and energy and sustainability strategy.

The strength of our balance sheet and credit ratings, dedication to proactive risk mitigation and engagement with our employees through ethics and anti-corruption training protects the financial, operational and reputational resilience of our company. Our global risk management team works with our Board to conduct regular enterprise-wide risk assessments to ensure proper oversight over real estate, financial and emerging risks across our global organization. We remain committed to ensuring that 100% of our employees complete ethics training annually, a commitment we continued to achieve in 2024. Along with this commitment, our employees completed more than 6,400 hours of information technology security, workplace safety, compliance and other ethics training in 2024. Our approach is reinforced by our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, as described above.

ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS

By the nature of our industry, we are exposed to various environmental risks that may result in unanticipated losses and affect our operating results and financial condition. Either the previous owners or we have conducted environmental reviews on a majority of the properties we have acquired, including land. While some of these assessments have led to further investigation and sampling, none of the environmental assessments have revealed an environmental liability that we believe would have a material adverse effect beyond amounts recorded at December 31, 2024. See further discussion in Item 1A. Risk Factors and Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

GOVERNMENTAL MATTERS

Given the global nature of our business, we are subject to various regulatory requirements, tax and other laws as well as exposed to economic and geopolitical matters such as taxes, tariffs, trade wars and laws within the countries in which we operate and unexpected changes in these items may result in unanticipated losses, adverse tax consequences and affect our operating results and financial condition. In addition, we may be impacted by the ability of our non-U.S. subsidiaries to distribute or otherwise transfer cash among our subsidiaries due to currency exchange control regulations and transfer pricing regulations. The impact of regional or country-specific economic instability, including government shutdowns or other internal trade alliances or agreements could also have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. See further discussion in Item 1A. Risk Factors.

INSURANCE COVERAGE

We carry insurance coverage for our properties. We determine the type of coverage and the policy specifications and limits based on what we deem to be the risks associated with our ownership of properties and our business operations in specific markets. Such coverage typically includes property damage and rental loss insurance resulting from such perils as fire, windstorm, flood, earthquake and terrorism; commercial general liability insurance; and environmental insurance. Insurance is maintained through a combination of commercial insurance, self-insurance and a wholly owned captive insurance entity. The business of our wholly owned captive insurance entity is ancillary to the owning and operating of our real estate. The costs to insure our properties are primarily covered through expense reimbursements from our customers. Additionally, in 2024 we sponsored a catastrophe bond issuance that provides further insurance coverage through 2027 for potential losses resulting from earthquake risks in the U.S. We believe our insurance coverage contains policy specifications and insured limits that are customary for similar properties, business activities and markets and we believe our properties are adequately insured. See further discussion in Item 1A. Risk Factors.

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