Weekly podcast – Collaboration and finance innovation for apparel and textiles

This week: At Innovation Forum's sustainable apparel and textiles conference in New York, Toby Webb spoke with Talha Khan, chief executive of Pakistan Environment Trust. They spoke about barriers to delivering bottom-up initiatives and financing the cleaner energy transition in Pakistan.

Following the conference, Toby spoke with Karimah Hudda, founder of illumine.earth. They discussed circularity, scope 3 and data, plus the importance of multi-stakeholder collaboration and maintaining balance in regulation and design innovation.

And: Ecuador votes against new oil sector development in the Amazon; US and EU should focus on lessening animal-based agriculture, warns One Earth journal; World Resources Institute research calls on businesses to follow science-based water targets for water resilience, in the news digest.

Host: Ian Welsh