MERLIN Properties Annual Report 2024

MERLIN Properties | 77 Sustainability advances in MERLIN’s portfolio MERLIN draws up its report on the environmental performance of its portfolio in strict compliance with the most up- to-date sustainability practices as per the EPRA Sustainability Best Practice Recommendations (3rd version, 2017) to ensure comparability with the data reported by other companies in the sector . For more information on the environmental performance of MERLIN’s portfolio, and the methodology used, please refer to “Appendix I. Environmental performance reporting in accordance with the EPRA Sustainability Best Practices Recommendations (sBPR)”. KEY ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS OF MERLIN’S PORTFOLIO (2) (1) The GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) Standards are the starting point for the third and most recent edition of the EPRA (European Public Real Estate Association) sBPR Guidelines released in 2017. These recommendations are the world’s most important sustainability reporting standards, but since they are intended for a wide range of companies, they are general and all-encompassing in nature. Consequently, in some cases they do not address the specific characteristics of the real estate sector. Accordingly, the EPRA sBPR Guidelines provide very specific reporting criteria that sum up the requirements in the GRI Standards. Following the recommendations of the EPRA sBPR Guidelines, Appendix I includes a series of tables that provide a full breakdown of the portfolio’s environmental performance data. (2) The environmental indicators reported in the infographic only include information on assets over which MERLIN exercises operational control. ENERGY WATER WASTE 2022 2023 2024 Absolute LfL Absolute LfL Absolute LfL 421,611 GJ 0.261 GJ/sqm 117,114 Mwh 0.073 Mwh/sqm 414,876 GJ 0.243 GJ/sqm 115,243 Mwh 0.068 Mwh/sqm 451,939 GJ 0.255 GJ/sqm 125,538 Mwh 0.071 Mwh/sqm 392,515 GJ 0.269 GJ/sqm 109,032 Mwh 0.075 Mwh/sqm 391,643 GJ 0.267 GJ/sqm 108,790 Mwh 0.074 Mwh/sqm 389,839 GJ 0.266 GJ/sqm 108,289 Mwh 0.074 Mwh/sqm 684,413 m 3 0.476 m 3 /sqm 679,061 m 3 0.463 m 3 /sqm 677,878 m 3 0.451 m 3 /sqm 650,288 m 3 0.477 m 3 /sqm 660,604 m 3 0.480 m 3 /sqm 656,138 m 3 0.478 m 3 /sqm 7,513 tons 7,010 tons 7,719 tons 7,116 tons 6,851 tons 7,523 tons