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.

The climate-carbon conundrum for the soft commodities: what’s next for resilience?

Climate-related disruptions have stark financial implications for businesses. Last year alone, global climate-related economic losses reached a staggering $380bn, with...

4 September 2025 - 15:00

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How can apparel build real resilience in the face of climate risk?

This week: Beth Jensen, chief impact officer at Textile Exchange talks with Innovation Forum's Tanya Richard about key conversations and takeaways from the recent sustainable apparel and textiles conference in New York. They discuss nature-positive strategies and how brands can better align with farmers and growers.Plus: global plastics treaty talks collapse again; fashion emissions rise despit...

21 Aug 25

Webinar recording: What’s the role of food retailers in enabling packaging sustainability?

Food retailers sit at the intersection of supply chain and consumer choice. They are uniquely pos...

How can apparel build real resilience in the face of climate risk?

This week: Beth Jensen, chief impact officer at Textile Exchange talks with Innovation Forum's Ta...

Reality check: securing cocoa supply through innovation

At the recent scope 3 innovation forum in Amsterdam, Tilmann Silber, head of net zero at Barry Ca...

Scaling coastal climate solutions: the potential for blue carbon in net-zero strategies

Coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes – collectively known as blue c...

The climate-carbon conundrum for the soft commodities: what’s next for resilience?

Climate-related disruptions have stark financial implications for businesses. Last year alone, gl...

Monday briefing – Decarbonising critical minerals: tackling energy, access and market volatility

In this briefing, a snippet from the recent critical minerals webinar with World Resources Instit...

Circular fashion: decoupling growth from new garment production

At the recent sustainable apparel and textiles conference in New York, Ellen MacArthur Foundation...

Dissolving the problem: zero-waste solutions for flexible packaging

This week: Vidhu Nagpal, director for flexible packaging, and Alex Abbott, chief revenue officer ...

Weekly briefing – The packaging and packaging waste directive: what it means for your business

This week: Davide Braghiroli, director for packaging sustainability solutions at Tetra Pak, talks...

Why healthy soils mean greater crop yields

This week: Alex Udermann and Mark Gutierrez, farmers from the Minnesota Soil Health Coalition, ta...

How EUDR compliance can create business value

In the second episode of Innovation Forum’s podcast series on corporate readiness for the EU Defo...

Monday briefing – Can business growth and emission cuts really go hand in hand?

This week: Kevin Rabinovitch, chief climate officer at Mars, talks with Ian Welsh about embedding...

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