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

Building resilience through regenerative cotton in India

While in India, Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb spoke with CottonConnect’s CEO Alison Ward and globa...

Closing the value gap: how to build a fairer food economy

Amanda Archila, executive director at Fairtrade America, and Anna Mann, associate director of res...

Monday briefing – Bringing end-to-end circular shopping experience to life

Decathlon's chief sustainability officer, Anna Turrell, reflects on the recent Innovation Forum s...

Securing sustainable crop nutrition: the role of fertilizers in regenerative agriculture (webinar recording)

Regenerative agriculture is an evolving, science-based and outcome-focused approach to farming, a...

How climate change is shaping the future of Brazilian cattle sector

Niamh McCarthy, director for climate-related risk at Climate Advisers talks with Innovation Forum...

Certified sustainable fashion: the benefits of certification standards

This week: John Murphy, technical director for Europe at Hohenstein Laboratories, talks with Inno...

INC-4 debrief: What’s next for the Global Plastics Treaty?

The 4th round of negotiations to establish a Global Plastics Treaty is taking place in Ottawa fro...

Monday briefing – Collaboration to discuss the future of the apparel sector

Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh and Hanna Halmari talk about what’s coming up this week at the susta...

Regenerative cotton – A supply chain revolution in the making?

If you buy clothes with a label promising more sustainable cotton, what does that promise really ...

The fabric of regulatory change in the apparel sector

This week: Kaley Roshitsh, editorial director at Cascale (formerly the Sustainable Apparel Coalit...

Growing awareness of EUDR's implications for palm oil

Joseph D'Cruz, CEO of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, and Olivier Tichit, chief sustainab...

How can technology and data help us build more sustainable agricultural supply chains?

Cross-commodity and cross-supplier sustainability data and insights are enabling better traceabil...

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