THE SUSTAINABILITY INTERVIEW
Responding to the customer focus on human rights and sustainability compliance Customer sustainability enquiries at RELX increasingly centre on human rights compliance and standards alignment, reflecting broader corporate focus on supply chain responsibility and ethical business practices. A recent example involved a risk business customer seeking certification of alignment with the UN Declaration on Human Rights for a contract worth more than £ 75m( US $ 101m) over five years.
The company addresses such requests by demonstrating its code of conduct, training programmes and supplier standards.
To streamline responses, RELX created the Sustainability Hub, where staff can access common questions and data without requiring direct support from the central team. The team tracks the business value of sustainabilityrelated requests to demonstrate commercial relevance.
RELX has also integrated ESG criteria into its £ 3bn( US $ 4bn) revolving credit facility, demonstrating how sustainability performance directly impacts financial terms. A consortium of banks agreed to sustainabilitylinked KPIs that affect the facility’ s cost based on performance against climate targets and its RELX SDG Resource Centre metrics.
28 September 2025