THE SUSTAINABILITY INTERVIEW

RELX office, London our academic customers, then you can’ t sell to them. So this is about the business, but it takes everybody in the business to be pulling in the same direction,” she explains.

Márcia describes her role as being a conscience of the company, while emphasising that all 36,000 employees share that responsibility. This distributed model has proven effective in addressing sustainability challenges that require both technical expertise and business understanding.

The alternative to traditional corporate social responsibility RELX structures its sustainability approach around a framework that differentiates the company from traditional corporate social responsibility programmes by focusing on sector-specific impacts.

“ We call that our unique contributions to society: things like protection of society and financial inclusion in our risk business; advancing science and health in our science, technology and medical business; looking at advancing the rule of law and access to justice in our legal business; fostering communities in our exhibitions business,” Márcia explains.

The company sets public objectives in each area and reports progress annually, creating accountability through transparency. This approach recognises that RELX’ s sustainability impact extends beyond traditional environmental and governance metrics to encompass the societal benefits of its products and services.

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