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

How the 43 largest food sector companies tackle forced labour

Felicitas Weber, Know the Chain project lead at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, ta...

How to drive continual agri supply chain improvements

Renata Nogueira, South America sustainability manager for Cargill, and Gonzalo La Cruz, managing ...

What is necessary for a landscape approach to work for palm oil?

This week: Olivier Tichit, director for sustainable supply chains at Musim Mas, talks about the e...

How greener marketing counters greenwash

John Grant, writer of the new book Greener Marketing, talks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb abo...

How corporate forest policy impacts indigenous human rights

Tom Griffiths, coordinator of the responsible finance programme at the Forest Peoples Programme, ...

How commodities are going deforestation-free in Colombia

Rainforest Alliance’s Mauricio Galindo, WWF’s Camila Cammaert and Laura Rojas Salazar, ONF Andina...

The path to 100% recycled plastic for Coca-Cola

This week: Joe Franses, vice-president for sustainability at Coca-Cola European Partners, discuss...

Commodity trader impacts in ‘hour-glass’ supply chains

Janina Grabs from ETH Zurich and Sophia Carodenuto from the University of Victoria discuss with I...

Pandemic impacts on food sector forced labour risks

This week: The new food and beverage sector forced labour and human rights issues benchmark from ...

What are the business-led solutions for smallholder communities?

Peter Stanbury and Ian Welsh discuss some of the initial insights from Innovation Forum’s action ...

The sustainable South American supply chains challenge

This week: Renata Nogueira, South America sustainability manager for Cargill, and Gonzalo La Cruz...

Webinar – Addressing gaps in sustainability: why fashion brands need more data

As apparel brands work to implement sustainability commitments across their supply chains, access...

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