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

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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

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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

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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

How natural climate solutions deliver effective GHG reductions

At the recent future for climate action conference, Marie-Pierre Bousquet Lecomte, science-based ...

Barry Callebaut and Cargill on how data drives value chain traceability

This week: Taco Terheijden, director, cocoa sustainability at Cargill, and Nicko Debenham, vice p...

Apparel sector’s ‘massive’ forced labour policy-practice gap

Felicitas Weber from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre talks with Innovation Forum’s ...

Solving the traceability challenges for uncertified palm oil

This week: Samuel Avaala from Benso Oil Palm Plantation in Ghana, talks about how to work with su...

Sir Ian Boyd on food sector efficiency challenges on the road to COP26

Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb talks with Sir Ian Boyd, professor of biology at the University of S...

Webinar – Nestlé's 10 years of sustainability in action: towards a forest positive future

In 2010 Nestlé made a commitment to end deforestation in its supply chain. In this webinar, hear ...

How partnership empowers Ghana’s cocoa growers

This week: Eunice Oduro, project manager at anti-poverty NGO CARE in Ghana and Samuel Apana, Carg...

CCC’s Julia King on business adaptation for climate change

At Innovation Forum’s recent future for climate action conference, Julia King, Baroness Brown of ...

Seafood sector climate change impacts, and apparel sector forced labour risks

This week: Expert insight from Cargill’s Dave Robb, Thai Union’s Tracy Cambridge, the Marine Stew...

Why responsible forests mean supply chain clarity

Pina Gervassi, FSC’s climate director, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about the benefits...

Why natural climate solutions are about much more than just planting trees

Danone’s Marie-Pierre Bousquet Lecomte, Nestlé’s Conor McMahon, Cargill’s Robert Horster, and Eve...

How to align targets in a coffee and cocoa landscape

Patricia Quijandría, director for the tropical Andes at Rainforest Alliance is joined by project ...

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