13 May 22 | Podcast
The human rights risks embedded in your daily cuppa
Ethical Tea Partnership chief executive Jenny Costelloe talks with Ian Welsh about how environmen...
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.
INC-5: do we have the global plastic treaty we need?
The rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution poses a significant global challenge, adversely affecting environmental, social economic and health aspects of sust...
11 December 2024 - 13:00
EUDR unpacked #2: coffee and cocoa supply chains under the lens
The likely postponement of the EUDR deadline offers coffee and cocoa supply chains more time to comply, but what do smallholder farmers think of this delay? This webin...
12 December 2024 - 13:00
EUDR unpacked #3: palm and soy plantations under the lens
With the EUDR deadline now potentially extended, large-scale palm and soy plantations have until December 2025 (or later for smaller operators) to ensure compliance. W...
17 December 2024 - 13:00
Understanding the opportunities from ethical trade practices
This week: Giles Bolton, executive director of the Ethical Trading Initiative, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about the shifting ethical trading and business and human rights risks and challenges. They discuss why they are getting the board room attention now that has perhaps been lacking in the past. Plus: the European Council pushes back on the “no-risk” amendment to the European Uni...
21 Nov 24
13 May 22 | Weekly podcast
How to create high quality apparel fibres from post-consumer garments
This week: Caroline Ledl, head of product management, textiles, at the Lenzing Group, talks about...
06 May 22 | Weekly podcast
Innovative solutions to the ‘crisis of stuff’
This week: Steven Bethell, co-founder of Bank+Vogue and Beyond Retro, talks about the growth of c...
05 May 22 | Podcast
Has business really shifted from the why to the how on sustainability?
Prof David Grayson, campaigner and former director of the Doughty Centre at Cranfield School of M...
29 Apr 22 | Weekly podcast
Why a zero-tolerance approach to worker recruitment fees is essential
This week: David Pettet, global human rights and sustainable supply chain director at Reckitt, ta...
29 Apr 22 | Podcast
LandScale: tackling landscape level challenges in Guatemala
Mario Rafael Rodriguez, senior associate for LandScale at the Rainforest Alliance, and José Luis ...
28 Apr 22 | Podcast
What EU corporate due diligence rules will actually mean for business
Innovation Forum’s Bea Stevenson talks with Salla Saastamoinen, director for civil and commercial...
22 Apr 22 | Weekly podcast
Tea sector’s blend of supply chain challenges
This week: Jenny Costelloe, chief executive of the Ethical Tea Partnership, discusses how the sec...
21 Apr 22 | Podcast
Why there is no such thing as perfect company data
Craig Mills, CEO of Vizzuality, talks with Ian Welsh about how companies are changing the process...
21 Apr 22 | Podcast
Does a focus on the facts lead to acceptance of gene editing?
Innovation Forum founder Toby Webb talks with Jon Entine, director of the Genetic Literacy Projec...
14 Apr 22 | Weekly podcast
The environmental and human rights legal risks business needs to know about
This week: Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer’s Elizabeth Forster and Innovation Forum’s Bea Stevenson...
13 Apr 22 | Podcast
Why companies must continue to source from ‘high-risk’ countries
Niels Wielaard, founder of Satelligence, and Ian Welsh, talk about traceability-to-plantation inn...