25 Feb 21 | Podcast
Potential labour and human costs of a successful energy transition
Jessie Cato, natural resources and human rights programme manager at the Business and Human Right...
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
19 Feb 21 | Weekly podcast
How an ecosystems services approach helps all producer communities
This week: Hear Musim Mas’s Olivier Tichet outline his ‘magic ingredients’ for landscape level so...
18 Feb 21 | Podcast
Are financial institutions ignoring deforestation?
Sarah Rogerson and Emma Thomson from Global Canopy talk with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about t...
12 Feb 21 | Weekly podcast
Manage apparel sector human rights risks by empowering producer communities
This week: Alison Ward, CEO of CottonConnect, discusses how brand buyers can work with cotton pro...
11 Feb 21 | Podcast
Materials innovation and sustainability: the business opportunities in 2021
In this extended discussion, hear experts from Neste, Covestro, Unilever and the European Commiss...
04 Feb 21 | Weekly podcast
Renewable energy’s human rights risks
Jessie Cato from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre talks about the latest tracker fol...
03 Feb 21 | Podcast
Deforestation commitments without implementation in palm oil
ZSL’s Eleanor Spencer and Ian Welsh talk about the latest SPOTT survey into transparency and stre...
28 Jan 21 | Podcast
How the US will regain climate leadership
Nathalie Walker, director for tropical forests and agriculture at the National Wildlife Federatio...
28 Jan 21 | Weekly podcast
Why financial institutions have $2.7tn of exposure to deforestation
This week: Global Canopy’s Sarah Rogerson and Emma Thomson discuss the latest Forest 500 report, ...
22 Jan 21 | Weekly podcast
How to align palm oil value chains
Ying Xuen Hoe, project manager, Proforest Southeast Asia, Rashyid Redza bin Anwarudin, head, grou...
21 Jan 21 | Podcast
Scaling-up finance for sustainable agriculture
Victoria Crawford, manager of the Investment Partnership Network at Just Rural Transition, and fr...
21 Jan 21 | Podcast
How better visibility can help de-commoditise supply chains
Niels Wielaard founder and CEO of Satelligence talks with Ian Welsh about initiatives that are de...