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RELX Environmental Challenge 2025: four shortlisted projects to bring safe water and sanitation to communities around the world

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To mark its 20th anniversary, the Elsevier Foundation has released an impact report highlighting its key partnerships and achievements.

Multiple-season farming is linked to greater crop diversity, higher food consumption, and improved food security—especially for better-off and male-headed households—though it shows no significant effect on child nutrition. This approach also suggests potential benefits for household resilience, highlighting the need to support poorer and female-headed households in accessing resources for multiple-season cultivation.

Established by the United Nations Development Programme in 1989—and inspired by the global milestone of Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987, World Population Day highlights critical issues relating to population and sustainable development. To raise awareness for this important topic, Elsevier presents a curated list of publicly available journal articles and book chapters to help advance #SDG3 and #SDG5 research.

More than 800 people from over 75 countries came together virtually on 3rd June 2025 for the eleventh edition of the RELX SDG Inspiration Day: "The Future of Philanthropy: Stepping up for the SDGs" The annual online event brings together together business, academia, NGOs and government to explore pressing issues and inspire action on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Explore highlights from the day including inspiring keynotes from Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary General of the United Nations, Sir Lenny Henry and Sarah, Duchess of York.

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Recognising our customer's efforts to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

This study examines the role of women’s leadership in the Wahana Usaha Jaya Cooperative in Bandung, Indonesia, in promoting household food waste reduction and community engagement. Findings show that WUJ’s spiritually motivated and economically empowering strategies effectively encourage waste reduction, particularly among women, despite ongoing infrastructural challenges. The study highlights that women-led, community-based cooperatives offer effective, context-sensitive models for urban environmental governance and advancing food security in the Global South.

International Day of Play 2026

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