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

Is smallholder farming really a broken model?

Gotz Martin, head of sustainability implementation at Golden Agri-Resources, explains why food sy...

Greenpeace on certification’s failings, and how they should be fixed

Toby Webb speaks with Grant Rosoman, senior forests campaigner at Greenpeace, about the organisat...

What’s the solution to the profit pursuit problem?

Business has lost its purpose, says Prof Andy Hoffman from the Ross School of Business at the Uni...

What will future materials be made from?

This week: Neste’s Lars Börger, Covestro’s Lynette Chung, Unilever’s Marika Lindstrom and Werner ...

Organic cotton's sector-changing potential

In the first of a new quarterly podcast series, Textile Exchange CEO La Rhea Pepper talks with In...

GIZ on why producer communities need a stronger voice

This week: Silke Peters from the sustainable agriculture supply chain initiative at GIZ talks abo...

How cotton learns from other commodity supply chains

Alison Ward, CEO of CottonConnect, talks with Ian Welsh about the durability of cotton supply cha...

Will future business leaders use their power differently?

This week: Andy Hoffman, professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, ...

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...

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...

Are financial institutions ignoring deforestation?

Sarah Rogerson and Emma Thomson from Global Canopy talk with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about t...

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...

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