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

TFT's Scott Poynton on certification

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Breaking palm oil’s deforestation link

Sime Darby is the largest producer of certified sustainable palm oil. But how would you describe ...

Millennials demand sustainability. Really?

Are so-called millennials – the demographic cohort born from around 1980 up to 2000 – more sustai...

The thoughtful route to circularity

First the easy part: the concept of the circular economy is now well understood. Its basic princi...

Progress in the forests for APP

In October 2014, when Scott Poynton of TFT, Simon Lord of New Britain Palm Oil and I got together...

Talking to farmers about cotton sustainability

Alison Ward outlines her views on how to manage cotton sustainability with farmers, consumers and...

Sustainability and cotton in China

In this podcast episode, Innovation Forum founder Toby Webb talks to the CEO of CottonConnect, Al...

The business case for sustainable cotton

Alison Ward discusses how CottonConnect, with its mission as a social enterprise, is engaging all...

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