How to unlock food sector efficiencies

This week: Sir Ian Boyd, professor of biology at the University of St Andrews, talks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb. Their discussion includes the potential impacts of COP26 on agriculture and food supply systems, and why the food sector needs to become between five and 10 times more efficient.

Plus: brand and retailer coalition calls for stronger EU anti-deforestation regulation; consumer concern on climate and biodiversity increasing, says Economist Intelligence Unit and WWF report; Pirelli launch FSC-certified tyres; paper-based bottles from Absolut, Carlsberg and Diageo; the rise of green steel; and, ExxonMobil and Chevron mugged by shareholder activists, in the news digest.

Host: Ian Welsh