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.

AI and technology: How digital transformation is driving the energy transition

Digitalisation is no longer a side enabler – it’s becoming central to system-wide acceleration, efficiency and optimisation. At the same time, questions remain around ...

28 January 2026 - 13:00

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Innovation for resilient food and health systems: how bioscience is driving transformational impact

The world faces mounting pressure to accelerate sustainable innovation at the intersection of food, health and industrial production, but moving from scientific discov...

3 February 2026 - 15:00

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Building credibility in sustainability storytelling: How NGOs can strengthen trust through transparent communications

As expectations around sustainability communication continue to rise, NGOs are under increasing pressure to demonstrate impact, explain complexity and be open about li...

5 February 2026 - 14:00

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Leading the way for systems change: Helena Helmersson on making sustainability a core business imperative

Few leaders in the apparel and textiles industry bring as much hands-on experience across buying, production and CSR as Helena Helmersson did during her time at H&...

17 February 2026 - 10:00

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Can green hydrogen decarbonise heavy industry?

This week: StormFisher Hydrogen’s chief executive officer, Judson Whiteside, talks with Ian Welsh about developing carbon-neutral e-methanol and e-methane from green hydrogen, and how policy incentives and corporate scope 3 pressures are shaping global demand for low-carbon fuels. He also explores the role of North America’s renewable power advantage, the realities of scaling hydrogen projects,...

22 Jan 26

Tracking corporate commitments to deforestation-free supply chains

The discussion reflects on the key findings of the second annual report of Forest Trends’ Supply ...

Grow Asia's Kavita Prakash-Mani on collaboration, scale, smallholder engagement and solutions

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Golden Agri-Resources’ Anita Neville discusses traceability, responsibility and targets

Please note that Golden Agri-Resources' yield improvement policy was introduced in 2012. To subsc...

TFT's Bastien Sachet on certification, impacts at scale and innovative technology

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Third party risk assessment in the extractives sector

This latest Innovation Forum webinar focuses on third party risk assessment and how due diligence...

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council’s Scott Nichols discusses the potential of aquaculture

Scott Nichols is a member of the board of the Aquaculture Stewardship Council and founder of Food...

Oxfam discusses cross-sector collaboration in the seafood industry

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How legislation should impact seafood supply – Humanity United’s David Abramowitz

The winners of the Partnership for Freedom Challenge that David Abramowitz mentions are Sustainab...

Ecovadis, HP & Centrica on how companies are responding to modern slavery

The focus of the discussion is to be simple but insightful by outlining the practical decisions, ...

Improving livelihoods in the cocoa supply chain with Cargill

In the webinar we discuss the following: • What challenges are specific to the cocoa supply chain...

Mondelez, US State Dept, Climate Focus & Winrock on how public-private partnerships can support deforestation-free supply chains

Discussed are key areas of cooperation that can help companies achieve their sustainability goals...

John Morrison from the Institute for Human Rights and Business on the UK modern slavery act

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