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

Novo Nordisk: how the SDGs are shaping the future of corporate behaviour

Susanne Stormer, vice-president corporate sustainability, Novo Nordisk, explains to Ian Welsh why...

How to deliver data-driven impact decisions

Richa Bajpai, founder of Goodera, talks with Ian Welsh about the challenges companies face measur...

Mars: using science-based targets to reduce impacts

Ashley Allen, climate and land senior manager, Mars, talks with Toby Webb about the company’s str...

Palm oil’s implementation versus commitments gap

Imperial College’s Josh Lyons-White discusses with Toby Webb a new study into barriers for palm o...

Weekly podcast: how to boost smallholder livelihoods, and modern slavery risk trends to watch

This week: IDH Indonesia’s Fitrian Ardiansyah speaks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb on how com...

The sprint to 2020: Partnerships in action to end commodity-driven deforestation.

In this webinar, in collaboration with TFA2020, an expert panel discuss examples of partnership i...

Weekly podcast: shadow companies in palm oil supply chains, and business’s social licence to operate

This week Aid Environment’s Tim Steinweg talks with Toby Webb about the work of Chain Reaction Re...

Supply chain data – why 100% standardisation doesn’t work

Supply Shift’s Jamie Barsimantov talks with Ian Welsh about trends in how companies are engaging ...

Cocoa sector’s joined up thinking in west Africa

Speaking in Accra, Ghana, the World Cocoa Foundation’s Ethan Budiansky and Innovation Forum’s Tob...

Fast fashion’s viscose deforestation impact

Nicole Rycroft, director, Canopy, outlines the links between the apparel sector and forest destru...

Anglo American: using targets to catalyse action

Jon Samuel, group head of social performance and engagement talks with Ian Welsh about AngloAmeri...

Has certification lost its way?

Nusa Urbancic, campaigns director, Changing Markets, debates the challenges for certification sch...

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