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 to work with suppliers to tackle critical human rights risks

This week: Why education and active engagement is how to work with suppliers to implement human r...

Webinar – Supply chain risk mapping: Advances in tech to map and monitor supply chain risks

Traceability is incredibly important in mapping and monitoring high risk areas of the supply chai...

The supply chain human rights risks to watch for from Covid-19 impacts

This week: Phil Bloomer, executive director of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, dis...

Why the plastics debate must focus on collection and recycling

Kristin Hughes, director of the Global Plastic Action Partnership, a multistakeholder initiative ...

How global human rights rules impact corporate supply chains

This week: Highlights from a recent Innovation Forum webinar discussing evolving business and hum...

Wageningen University on poverty alleviation in cocoa, coffee and tea supply chains

Yuca Waarts, senior researcher, sustainable value chain development, Wageningen University talks ...

Developing Veja’s sustainable supply chains, and important news from Innovation Forum

This week: François-Ghislain Morillion, co-founder of trainer brand Veja, on how the business has...

Why due diligence on human rights should be central to corporate purpose

Andrew Wallis CEO of charity Unseen talks with Ian Welsh about the key human rights risks that bu...

Evidence-based approach to tackling plastic pollution

This week: Kristin Hughes, director of the Global Plastic Action Partnership, on how a holistic m...

Forest 500 on the lack of corporate progress on deforestation

New Forest 500 report authors Sarah Rogerson and Emma Thomson, from Global Canopy, discuss with I...

How to boost soil health for greater productivity

Amy Yoder, CEO of agri-tech business Anuvia Plant Nutrients, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian We...

Yum! Brands, Mondelēz and Nestlé on food sector action on climate change

This week: Yum! Brands’ Jon Hixon, Mondelēz International’s Christine McGrath and Nestlé’s Anna T...

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