Policy and Impact Assessment

Policy

We strive to ensure that our building designs are sustainable and provide a healthy place for people to work. Similarly, promoting biodiversity and ensuring the health of plants and wildlife in and around the built environment is integral to sustainability. Acting as a good neighbor in the way we develop and manage our properties makes us welcome to do business in communities around the world. Furthermore, by focusing on infill redevelopment, often with legacy contamination issues, we promote biodiversity in two key ways: (1) we clean up potentially harmful ecosystem contaminants; and (2) we recycle land.

Impact Assessment

Prologis ensures that an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) or similar assessment is conducted for development projects we undertake, to determine whether our plans for the site will impact or threaten any species or habitats. This assessment is generally conducted during the land procurement and entitlement process.
We work in partnership with relevant agencies and organizations to manage any impacts and go above and beyond requirements to mitigate those impacts where feasible. Our efforts have been well received in the communities where our properties are located.

Promoting On-site Greenery

Prologis Park Kawajima

Considering the rich natural environment in the region, the facility’s landscaping was designed to include a variety of plants and trees, such as evergreens, deciduous trees, conned trees, middle trees, shrubs, and ground cover.

Prologis Park Tokyo-Shinkiba

By installing rooftop greenery and green walls, we are reducing and mitigating the urban heat-island effect. Additionally, we have built a road and a park on the property’s site for the local community to further enhance safety and improve the surrounding environment.

Survey of Sea Life in Osaka Bay

Employees from the Prologis Osaka Office conducted a survey of the creatures that live in Osaka Bay on a beach near Kansai International Airport as a part of our "Impact Day" activities. In collaboration with the Association for the Promotion of Environmental Technology, a non-profit organization, Prologis participated in the survey from 2015 to 2018, at Boude Beach (Hannan City, Osaka Prefecture). Every year, while confirming the best schedule for the activity, we surveyed and recorded the distribution of sea life in the area with researchers, followed by a clean-up of the entire area.
This activity has been conducted since 2007 by the Osaka Bay Environmental Restoration Liaison Committee with the aim of surveying the living organisms in the bay, as the habitat of Osaka Bay deteriorated during the post-war period of economic growth. Various organizations, including government agencies and universities, as well as the local community, participate in this "simultaneous survey" of the entire bay area, and Prologis is the only private company volunteering in this project.