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

Brendan May on sustainable seafood challenges

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Forest products in fashion's supply chains with Fiona Wheatley

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Tony Juniper on the complexity of deforestation strategies

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Miriam Swaffer, Union of Concerned Scientists, on deforestation-free commodities

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Richard Donovan, Rainforest Alliance, on business and deforestation commitments

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Cooperation that solves ethical trade challenges

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The forests certification debate

Will workers win from the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) mega trade deal, now approved by 12 Pacific-rim countries, wi...

ETI's Philip Chamberlain on the state of ethical trade

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Managing expectations in Africa’s forests *

When very different worlds collide, some discordance should probably be expected. This is what Go...

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