Innovation Forum Podcast

Innovation Forum hosts a weekly podcast along with regular interviews with business leaders in sustainability. Each week, we summarise the latest sustainability news and announcements, and get the views of leading experts on business critical issues. Widely regarded as one of the best sustainability podcasts around, stay tuned for regular insights, debate and analysis.

From data gaps to compliance: the role of Geospatial AI in sustainability

Sustainability claims are facing increasing scrutiny, with rising costs, data uncertainty and growing pressure on businesses to provide verifiable proof of their effor...

22 May 2025 - 14:00

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Unlock business value via carbon measurement and decarbonisation strategy

This week: Ellen McCormack, head of Europe at Watershed, talks with Ian Welsh about how major companies are integrating sustainability into finance and operations. They discuss the shifting narrative from climate goals to ROI, challenges in renewable energy infrastructure, and trends in carbon removal and investor demand. Plus: vegetable oil prices surge amid instability; rare earths weaponised...

16 Apr 25

Richard Donovan, Rainforest Alliance, on business and deforestation commitments

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Cooperation that solves ethical trade challenges

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The forests certification debate

ETI's Philip Chamberlain on the state of ethical trade

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Will workers win from the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) mega trade deal, now approved by 12 Pacific-rim countries, wi...

Managing expectations in Africa’s forests *

When very different worlds collide, some discordance should probably be expected. This is what Go...

TFT's Scott Poynton on certification

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Breaking palm oil’s deforestation link

Sime Darby is the largest producer of certified sustainable palm oil. But how would you describe ...

Millennials demand sustainability. Really?

Are so-called millennials – the demographic cohort born from around 1980 up to 2000 – more sustai...

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