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

Insect protein as animal feed: why we need it and how to scale it

Video: It’s clear that animal feed supply chains in their current form are unsustainable for indu...

Why there is no such thing as ‘waste’

Bank + Vogue and Beyond Retro co-founder Steven Bethell talks with Ian Welsh about the growth of ...

From commitments to action at scale: Critical steps to achieve deforestation-free supply chains

Audio: In the eight years since companies and governments came together under the New York Declar...

Why leading companies will have to do more than their fair share on climate

This week: Business and climate strategy expert Iain Watt talks about some of the challenges for ...

From commitments to action at scale: Critical steps to achieve deforestation-free supply chains

Video: In the eight years since companies and governments came together under the New York Declar...

What ambitious apparel scope 3 targets look like

This week: Anant Ahuja, head of organisational development at Indian apparel manufacturer Shahi E...

Why there’s no ‘one size fits all’ solution for due diligence

David Pettet, global human rights and sustainable supply chain director at Reckitt, talks with Ia...

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...

The human rights risks embedded in your daily cuppa

Ethical Tea Partnership chief executive Jenny Costelloe talks with Ian Welsh about how environmen...

Why due diligence may lead to a ‘wave of litigation’

The potential impacts of due diligence legislation in various jurisdictions are discussed by Fres...

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...

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...

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