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

TFA on the tradeoffs that can scale the landscape approach

This week: Justin Adams, executive director of the Tropical Forest Alliance discusses the challen...

How to make the sustainable business intangibles tangible

Kevin Eckerle, director for corporate research and engagement at NYU Stern School of Business and...

Can the apparel sector grasp technology’s opportunities?

This week: Rubana Huq, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Associatio...

How to make tropical forest restoration work

This week: Lucita Jasmin and Brad Sanders from Indonesian resources company APRIL, Fitrian Ardian...

Do millennials trust brands?

Speaking with Ian Welsh at Innovation Forum’s recent business and impacts conference in Detroit, ...

How business is using science-based targets to drive performance

This week: Nathan Shuler, sustainability solutions architect with Schneider Electric, debates the...

How does landscape conservation/restoration work on the ground? An Indonesian case study

The focus of this discussion-based webinar is the Kampar Peninsula ‘Production: Protection’ appro...

Can companies monetise a sustainable business approach?

This week: Kevin Eckerle from NYU Stern School of Business explains how companies can identify th...

Forest preservation’s multifaceted social and environmental challenges

Speaking in the forests on the east coast of Sumatra, APRIL’s deputy head of conservation Brad Sa...

Who young consumers trust to tell them the truth about brands

This week: a panel of millennial consumers from the University of Michigan and Columbia Universit...

Bayer on the technology that can ensure future food security

Ronald Guendal, Bayer Crop Science’s global head of food security and advocacy, talks with Innova...

GM’s evolving engagement on operational and product efficiencies

This week: Telva McGruder, director, workplace engineering and operations solutions at General Mo...

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