In the every-day conduct of our business, we make a positive impact on society through our unique contributions.
- Protection of society
- Advance science and health
- Promote of the rule of law & access to justice
- Fostering communities
- Universal, sustainable access to information
LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ products and services help protect society by detecting and preventing fraud, helping citizens securely access vital government benefits, and assisting law enforcement to keep communities safe.
A number of Risk products help customers recognise trusted transactions and reduce fraud. LexisNexis ID Compass Platform, for example, reduces digital fraud by combining physical, digital and behavioural identity intelligence to verify and authenticate consumer identities in real time without disruption for businesses or its customers. ThreatMetrix leverages shared global intelligence from millions of daily consumer interactions to identify signals of high fraud risk while BehavioSec uses behaviour intelligence to differentiate legitimate users from bots and cybercriminals. In the year, Risk published The Global Fraud and Identity Landscape Report, highlighting how businesses can significantly enhance fraud detection by integrating shared digital identity intelligence and multi-layered security systems to maintain consumer trust.
2025 marked 25 years of the ADAM programme, developed by Risk to help the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) find missing children. The programme uses Risk technology to quickly distribute missing child poster alerts to law enforcement, hospitals, and the public in specific geographic search areas. Risk launched a new interactive dashboard in the year, that enables the public to search missing child posters and filter them by location. ADAM distributed over 1.8m alerts featuring over 2,030 missing children which helped NCMEC resolve over 1,440 missing child cases in 2025.
Our data privacy principles, governance structures and control programmes enable us to comply with data privacy requirements and protect personally identifiable information.
We prioritise individuals’ privacy concerns across all jurisdictions where we operate. We work with established privacy advocacy groups, federal and state legislators and other interested parties and operate within relevant legal, regulatory, ethical and best practice frameworks. Risk’s products and services align with SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities), among others.
Elsevier advances scientific knowledge and human welfare, spurs innovation and enables critical decision-making through its science and health publications. Elsevier published over 795,000 articles in 2025. It is focused on expanding access to content in places where resources are often scarce. For example, Elsevier is a leading contributor and founding partner of Research4Life, a partnership with UN agencies and over 200 publishers through which we provide core and cutting-edge scientific information to researchers in over 125 low- and middle-income countries.
Elsevier provides around 14% of the material available in Research4Life, encompassing approximately 5,500 journals and 35,000 e-books. In 2025, there were over 942,000 total Research4Life downloads from Elsevier’s research platform, ScienceDirect.
SSRN is Elsevier’s preprint and early-stage research platform.
It allows researchers around the world to openly share their work so that it is freely available to others in their field and the wider research community, promoting discussion, collaboration and an exchange of ideas. In 2025, over 1,200 Elsevier journals offered researchers the opportunity to simultaneously submit a paper for publication and also post it as a preprint on SSRN.
Elsevier’s 4th Generation University initiative, developed in partnership with a group of 12 Universities, positions universities as orchestrators of regional innovation, achieving societal and economic impact through partnerships with industry, government, and civil society. More than 50 universities from over 30 countries have joined the 4th Generation University community to date. The initiative was awarded the Thought Leadership Industry Catalyst prize at the 2025 Thought Leadership For Tomorrow Awards for bringing universities together to embrace local innovation with the aim of tackling pressing challenges and driving regional economic growth.
Elsevier makes a significant contribution to SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), SDG 5 (Gender Equality), SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities) and SDG 13 (Climate Action).
Through its content, data and analytics, LexisNexis Legal & Professional supports the four components of the Rule of Law: transparency of law, equality under the law, independent judiciaries and accessible legal remedy. Its global legal and news database contains over 207bn documents and records providing transparency of the law in around 180 countries and territories, with some 1.9m new legal documents added daily.
The LexisNexis Trust Center was launched in 2025, a centralised hub designed to provide customers, partners and regulators with clear, accessible information about the company’s security posture, privacy practices, governance frameworks, and compliance commitments. The Trust Center aims to provide customers and partners around the globe with transparency and confidence in our technology.
LexisNexis Legal & Professional partners with the International Bar Association (IBA) on the eyeWitness to Atrocities App, which allows human rights defenders to document and report human rights abuses in a secure and verifiable way so information can be used as admissible evidence in relevant forums. LexisNexis Legal & Professional’s data hosting capabilities provides a secure repository for the information. Over 80,000 photos and videos have been captured through the app since 2015.
The LexisNexis Legal & Professional US Voting Laws and Legislation Center offers free public access to insights on proposed bills, codes and real-time updates for the most accurate data.
LexisNexis Legal & Professional partners with leading industry associations to recognise individuals and organisations for their commitment to the Rule of Law. 2025 award honourees include; Seve Aydin-Izouli and Héctor Estuardo Reyes Chiquín, recipients of the Union Internationale des Avocats/LexisNexis Rule of Law Award; and Oluwafunke Adeoye, recipient of the IBA Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award, jointly established by Legal and the IBA Young Lawyers Committee, to honour young lawyers who have demonstrated excellence, commitment to professional and ethical standards, and dedication to the community at large.
LexisNexis Legal & Professional advances SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) through its products and services that promote the Rule of Law.
Exhibitions helps to foster communities by connecting customers face to face and digitally, allowing them to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. Participants benefit by making connections and doing business in person, allowing them to see many customers and suppliers at one time.
Exhibitions foster collaboration, spark innovation and support progress toward a more inclusive and sustainable global economy.
The PGA Show is RX Global’s golf exhibition. It advanced event sustainability in the year by aligning with RX’s Net Zero Carbon Events pledge, integrating waste-reduction, inclusive design and digital engagements for more than 22,000 attendees and 1,025 exhibiting brands.
KORMARINE, RX’s maritime and energy exhibition welcomed more than 27,000 visitors and 695 exhibitors from 23 countries to Busan, South Korea in 2025. This year’s event featured the debut Next Energy Pavillion focused on future fuels and renewable energy, highlighting RX’s role in advancing decarbonisation and innovation in the shipping and energy sectors.
MIPCOM Cannes 2025 featured the sixth edition of the MIP SDG Awards, honouring Secuoya Studios for its commitment to the UN SDGs and for driving measurable progress through content creation and production practices. Presented in partnership with the United Nations, the 2025 awards recognised leadership in advancing sustainability and inclusion across the global media industry.
At the 2025 edition of World Travel Market in London sustainability, investment and inclusive growth in global tourism were highlighted, aligning industry investment with purpose-led travel.
Each event connects industries and also accelerates collective solutions to shared global challenges.
RX events support SDG 9 (Industry Innovation and Infrastructure), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) and SDG 13 (Climate Action) through our Net Zero Events commitments.
RELX SDG Resource Centre, Inspiration Day and Environmental Challenge
Recognising that across RELX we have products, services, tools and events that advance the UN’s 17 SDGs, we created the free RELX SDG Resource Centre in 2017 to advance awareness, knowledge and implementation of the SDGs. Since 2017, we have made over 2,700 journal articles and book chapters free to access via the RELX SDG Resource Centre which would have otherwise cost more than £5.7m to make open access.
We held the annual RELX SDG Inspiration Day during the year with a focus on how philanthropy can bridge funding gaps to advance the SDGs. Thought leaders, corporate representatives, investors, governments, and NGOs discussed challenges and opportunities for collaboration. Keynote speakers included 8th Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, Comic Relief co-founder, Sir Lenny Henry and co-founder of Global Citizen, Michael Sheldrick.
2025 marked the fifteenth year of the RELX Environmental Challenge, which provides grants for projects that best demonstrate how they can provide sustainable access to safe water and sanitation where it is presently at risk. A $50,000 prize is granted to the first-place entry and a $25,000 prize for the second-place entry. The winners also receive free access for one year to ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s database of full text, scientific information. Projects must have clear practical applicability, address identified need and advance related issues such as health, education, or human rights.
The first prize winner this year was Folia Water for their paper-based water filter with silver antimicrobial technology, designed to deliver safe drinking water for low-income Bangladeshi communities. The second prize winner was Rice University for Solar Thermal Resonant Energy Exchange Desalination, a fully decentralised, membrane-free, solar thermal desalination solution, which addresses critical water scarcity and brine waste management issues.