International Alliance for Responsible Drinking

International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD)

Type	Non-for-profit Organization
Industry	Health
Founded	January 2015
Headquarters	Washington D.C., Geneva
Website	www.iard.org

The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD),^[1] headquartered in Washington D.C., is a not-for-profit organization formed to address the global public health issue of harmful drinking. IARD is committed to promoting responsible drinking worldwide, and acknowledges that this can only be achieved by a collective effort shared by governments, producers, retailers, consumers, and civil society. It is supported by the world’s leading beer, wine, and spirits producers. These include Anheuser-Busch InBev, Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd., Bacardi Limited, Beam Suntory, Brown-Forman Corporation, Carlsberg, Diageo, Heineken, Kirin Holdings Company, Limited, Molson Coors, Pernod Ricard, and SABMiller.Together, the 12 CEO signatories and their companies are part of the Producers' Commitments to reduce harmful drinking.^[2]

History

IARD was launched in January 2015 and builds on two decades of research, policy analysis and programs by the International Center for Alcohol Policies (ICAP), as well as the efforts of the Global Alcohol Producers Group (GAPG). ^[3]

Producers' Commitments

IARD is the secretariat to the Beer, Wine and Spirits Producers’ Commitments to Reduce Harmful Drinking. IARD’s formation was driven by the companies’ keenness to increase momentum around the Commitments and, in general, to step up action to meet the target on harmful drinking agreed by the worlds’ governments.^[4]

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