ICCR Issue Work: Corporate Engagement in Action

ICCR Members are actively engaging companies on the most intractable environmental, social and governance issues impacting today’s people and planet.  Via our Members’ Area website our membership self-organizes and coordinates their work on dozens of issues, however, because they have implications across a broad range of companies and sectors, the following ten issue areas have been designated as priorities by the membership:

	Water
	Sustainable use of water resources that respect the universal human right to water. >> The freshwater crisis
	Food
	Influencing companies to adopt practices that are aligned with a safe, secure, healthy and sustainable food system. >> Ensuring a safe, sustainable food supply
	The Social Sustainability Resource Guide
	ICCR is bringing the human and community impact of doing business to the forefront of corporate consciousness and to the core of business planning. >> The Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities
	Human Trafficking
	Engaging publically held companies to address forced child labor & human trafficking for sexual & economic purposes. >> Human trafficking & forced child labor
	Environmental Health
	Working to ensure adoption over the next five years of safer environmental policies by companies around the world. >> Hydrofracking in the Natural Gas Industry
	Global Health
	Every pharmaceutical company incorporates access to medicines into its core business model, including geographic focus, product development, and delivery systems.>> The License to Cure
	Domestic Health
	Advocating for practices that support provision of quality and affordable health care for all. >> Affordable Health Care: A Fundamental Human Right
	Financial Practices & Risk
	Working for greater transparency, risk management and accountability across the financial sector and improved access to credit and capital for the marginalized and underserved. >> Values in Finace - Are We Ready to Learn the Lesson?
	Supply Chain Monitoring
	Engaging companies to adopt programs, policies and practices that account for the short and long-term sustainability of the workers and communities impacted by their operations.
	Governance
	ICCR members are also actively engaging companies on important issues of governance including executive compensation,  political spending and diversity policies. >>Tying executive compensation to performance