In the every-day conduct of our business, we make a positive impact on society through our unique contributions.
- Protection of society
- Advance of science and health
- Promotion 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, such as LexisNexis ThreatMetrix, aim to reduce online fraud or, in the case of LexisNexis Identity Verification Solution, prevent theft, helping customers recognise trusted transactions and reduce fraud losses. LexisNexis Emailage Rapid analyses customer email addresses and other information to flag fraud risks in insurance applications, helping to identify fraudulent activities without disrupting the customer experience. Risk was recognised for its contributions to fraud prevention through data-driven insights at the Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Awards 2024.
The ADAM programme was developed by Risk to help the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) find missing children. Risk technology quickly distributes missing child poster alerts to law enforcement, hospitals, and the public in specific geographic search areas. In 2024, ADAM distributed nearly 1.4m alerts featuring over 1,950 missing children which helped NCMEC resolve over 1,380 missing child cases.
Our data privacy principles, governance structures and control programmes help ensure data privacy requirements are met and personally identifiable information is protected. 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 always 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 plays an important role in advancing scientific knowledge and human welfare through its science and health information, which spurs innovation and enables critical decision-making.
In serving the global scientific research community, Elsevier published over 720,000 articles in 2024. To broaden access to its content, Elsevier supports programmes in places where resources are often scarce. Among them is Research4Life, a partnership with UN agencies and over 200 publishers through which we provide core and cutting-edge scientific information to researchers in 125 low- and middle-income countries.
As a founding partner and leading contributor, Elsevier provides around 16% of the material available in Research4Life, encompassing approximately 5,500 journals and 35,500 e-books.
In 2024, there were over 1.3m Research4Life downloads from Elsevier’s research platform, ScienceDirect.
In 2024, the Elsevier Foundation supported Research4Life’s Country Connectors initiative, heightening awareness and use of Research4Life content, building communities of users through national focal points across Africa. Connectors create tailored networking, promote skills building and empower users to drive change in their communities.
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 2024, over 1,100 Elsevier journals offered researchers the opportunity to simultaneously submit a paper for publication and also post it as a preprint on SSRN.
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 161bn documents and records providing transparency of the law in around 180 countries and territories, with some 1.6m new legal documents added daily.
In the year LexisNexis Legal & Professional completed a five-year project with the Cook Islands to consolidate their laws and make them freely available online, improving transparency and accessibility for citizens, local legal practitioners and the global community.
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 utilises its data hosting capabilities to provide a secure repository for the information collected. Over 70,000 photos and videos have been captured with the app since 2015.
In 2024, the LexisNexis Legal & Professional US Voting Laws and Legislation Center was named a finalist by the World Justice Project for the US Building Trust Prize, a global competition for advancing rule of law and democratic resilience.
The US Voting Laws and Legislation Center is a free resource offering public access to insights on proposed bills, codes and real-time updates for the most accurate data.
Since 2008, LexisNexis Legal & Professional has partnered with leading industry associations to recognise individuals and organisations for their commitment to the Rule of Law. 2024 award honourees include Vineetha MG, recipient of the IBA Pro Bono Award; Olga Olegovna Mikhaylova, Vadim Dmitrievich Kobzev and Alexey Evgenyevich Liptser, recipients of the Union Internationale des Avocats/LexisNexis Rule of Law Award; and Mashal Aamir, 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. In 2024 performance exceeded pre-pandemic levels, highlighting the importance participants place on connecting and doing business in person, allowing them to see many customers and suppliers at one time.
Increasing numbers of customers took advantage of new RX digital and data analysis tools to source business solutions and suppliers, capture and qualify more leads, and analyse and improve their event performance.
Among our hundreds of activities and shows there were some remarkable milestones achieved in 2024. RX’s All-Energy and Dcarbonise exhibition broke all previous attendance records in 2024 with more than 7,000 attendees across 57 sessions looking at policy, ambitions, challenges, opportunities and innovative solutions in renewable power, low carbon heat and low carbon transport.
The 16th edition of RX’s World Future Energy Summit achieved significant participation, highlighting its importance within the climate change and sustainability ecosystem, with three new forums: Green Finance, eMobility and Pathway to 1.5C.
In the year, RX published a Guide to Creating Inclusive Events designed to help event organisers add value by ensuring all attendees and event participants feel welcome, seen, and safe at our events.
RX events strengthen communities and support SDG 9 (Industry Innovation and Infrastructure), SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals). In addition, RX supports SDG 13 (Climate Action) through our Net Zero Events commitments and by using its event platforms to drive industry engagement in a net zero carbon future.
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 2,300 journal articles and book chapters free to access via the RELX SDG Resource Centre which would have otherwise cost more than £5m to make open access.
We held our annual RELX SDG Inspiration Day during the year with a focus on the use of AI to advance the SDGs, giving thought leaders, corporate representatives, investors, governments, and NGOs a platform to discuss challenges and opportunities for collaboration. Keynote speakers included 8th Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, author and founder of The Futurwise Institute, Dr Mark van Rijmenam and co-founder of Global Citizen, Michael Sheldrick.
Since 2011, the RELX Environmental Challenge has been awarded to projects that best demonstrate how they can provide sustainable access to safe water and sanitation where it is presently at risk. In 2024 the $50,000 first prize winner was Living Water Systems which developed a low cost, portable, rainwater harvesting system. The $25,000 second prize winner was Permalution whose innovative technology collects water from fog and clouds.