The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking's (IARD) member companies – the world’s leading beer, wine, and spirits producers – undertake a wide range of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives as part of their commitments to sustainability and social responsibility. ...
Read MoreThe CEO Chair and Vice Chair of IARD, together with IARD’s CEO, wrote to Dr. Tedros, Director-General of the World Health Organization, to outline this initiative. In the letter they stated: In response to the 2018 United Nations Political Declaration ...
Read MoreThe CEO Chair and Vice-Chair of IARD and IARD CEO outlined the detail of this initiative in a letter to Dr. Tedros,Director General of the World Health Organization in May 2021. In the letter they state: In response to the ...
Read MoreIncludes Walmart, SPAR International, Google, Meta, Door Dash, Rappi, Uber Eats, the International Chamber of Commerce, and Duty Free World Council, alongside the members of the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD) – the leading global beer, wine, and spirits producers New Standards ...
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic presents an unprecedented global challenge of protecting lives while also safeguarding livelihoods and communities. Only a whole-of-society, united, and collaborative approach can deliver an effective global response. As custodians of some of the world’s most iconic and ...
Read More25 September 2025, New York The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD), a science-based, not-for-profit organization with official status at the United Nations, welcomes the new Political Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NC Ds) at today’s Fourth UN ...
Read More* Check Against Delivery * STARTS Thank you Chair. I am Julian Braithwaite, President and CEO of the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking. I am delivering this statement on behalf of the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking, which is supported ...
Read MoreDear Dr. Tedros, The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to communities around the world. Although the pandemic has heavily impacted our companies, and even more so our customers running hospitality premises, we remain steadfast in our commitment to supporting ...
Read MoreNew statistics produced by one of the world’s leading studies assessing the burden of disease (Global Burden of Disease) and the World Health Organization show that alcohol-related harms are decreasing across Europe, with International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD) members* ...
Read MoreA partial list of external examples of policies and processes using private sector data in research, intended to support stakeholders in future data sharing agreements.
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