30 Oct 17 | Podcast
Driving brand performance through supply chain transparency
For brands and companies with commodity supply chains, ensuring sustainable sourcing is no longer...
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
09 Oct 17 | Podcast
What is the realistic role of business in tackling ocean plastics pollution?
Plastic is everywhere. Its versatility, low weight and low cost have made our lives easier. Howev...
03 Oct 17 | Podcast
Mondelēz – Partnering to reduce deforestation in the cocoa supply chain
In the west African nations of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, where the majority of the world’s cocoa b...
28 Sep 17 | Podcast
What really makes companies act on human rights?
In the past, companies have viewed human rights risks as a reputational risk – if abuses are foun...
22 Sep 17 | Podcast
Accelerating action on deforestation in commodity supply chains
Many companies, large and small, have made commitments to eliminate deforestation from their supp...
21 Sep 17 | Webinar
Can brands be blamed for endemic development problems?
Another day, another campaign targeting big business – now it’s been the turn of the chocolate se...
14 Sep 17 | Podcast
Scaling factory impacts through partnerships and collaboration
In this Innovation Forum webinar, hear an expert panel outline some effective and current collabo...
07 Sep 17 | Podcast
Big data’s impact on corporate human rights risks
John Morrison, chief executive of the Institute for Human Rights and Business, talks to Innovatio...
10 Jul 17 | Podcast
Cargill: focus company resources where impact is greatest
Companies need to establish what relevant and challenging goals look like, set targets and then m...
10 Jul 17 | Podcast
How to connect people with business purpose
Gray argues that overall corporate strategy is becoming increasingly the core focus of employee e...
06 Jul 17 | Podcast
New principles to drive tech-based worker engagement
Companies don’t know what is going on in their supply chains on human rights and forced labour, a...
06 Jul 17 | Podcast
EICC’s new proactive cross-sector approach to forced labour
The new initiative is designed to facilitate cross-sector collaboration, exporting EICC’s due dil...