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NGO Profile: Investor Environmental Health Network
The Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN) is a collaborative partnership of investment managers, advised by NGOs, concerned about the market and health risks associated with corporate toxics policies. It serves as an informational resource and secretariat for investors and NGOs alike. It's goal is to foster corporate adoption of precautionary corporate safer chemicals policies, promoting the reduction and elimination of toxic chemicals and substitution of safer materials IEHN is comprised of more than 20 Socially Responsible Investment organizations and engages companies via dialogues and shareholder resolutions. It also builds the business case for safer chemicals policies via publications and reports and promotes enhanced disclosure of toxic chemicals issues and concerns by companies.
The Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN) is a collaborative partnership of investment managers, advised by NGOs, concerned about the market and health risks associated with corporate toxics policies. It serves as an informational resource and secretariat for investors and NGOs alike. Its goal is to foster corporate adoption of precautionary corporate safer chemicals policies, promoting the reduction and elimination of toxic chemicals and substitution of safer materials. IEHN is comprised of more than 20 Socially Responsible Investment organizations and engages companies via dialogues and shareholder resolutions. It also builds the business case for safer chemicals policies via publications and reports and promotes enhanced disclosure of toxic chemicals issues and concerns by companies. As of December 2007, 35 shareholder resolutions had been introduced during 3 proxy-voting "seasons", 50+ companies had been engaged via letter or phone, and changes in manufacturing, procurement, or retailing practices had been accomplished at such companies as Whole Foods Market, Sears/Kmart, and ConAgra. To build the business case for corporate and investor action, IEHN has publicized a "benchmarking framework" for assessing corporate policies, funded case studies of innovative corporate practices, and produced "A Fiduciary Guide to Toxic Chemical Risk" that provides pension fund trustees and fund managers with a toolkit for engaging companies on these issues.
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Investor Environmental Health Network
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The Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN) is a collaborative partnership of investment managers, advised by NGOs, concerned about the market and health risks associated with corporate toxics policies. It serves as an informational resource and secretariat for investors and NGOs alike. It's goal is to foster corporate adoption of precautionary corporate safer chemicals policies, promoting the reduction and elimination of toxic chemicals and substitution of safer materials IEHN is comprised of more than 20 Socially Responsible Investment organizations and engages companies via dialogues and shareholder resolutions. It also builds the business case for safer chemicals policies via publications and reports and promotes enhanced disclosure of toxic chemicals issues and concerns by companies.
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- Contact Name
- Richard A. Liroff
- Contact Email
- rliroff@iehn.org
- Contact Phone
- 703 532 2929
- Geographic Areas
- National & International
- Focus area(s)
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- Markets-focused Work
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