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

Compliance, collaboration and chemical recycling: the future of plastics and packaging

This week: At Innovation Forum's recent future of plastics and packaging conference, Ian Welsh sp...

Transformation, traceability and transparency: from intention to action

Charlotte Bande, global food and beverage sector lead at Quantis, talks to Innovation Forum's Ian...

Monday briefing: carbon credit trading on Tokyo Stock Exchange

In this week's briefing, Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh and Bea Stevenson talk about how Tokyo Stoc...

Is our food undervalued?

This week: Bex Hall, head of consulting at Sedex, talks to Ian Welsh about the factors that have ...

Tackling deforestation with carbon markets in Cambodia

Say Samal, former minister for the environment and now deputy prime minister of the Royal Governm...

Monday briefing: England's single-use plastics ban explained

In this week's briefing, Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh and Bea Stevenson talk about what the incom...

Delivering future food supply security: a how-to guide

This week: Cargill's vice president for environmental sustainability, Heather Tansey, talks with ...

Four lessons from a surprising deforestation success story

How can a profitable company rise to the immense biodiversity challenge facing the world? Maybe o...

Going the whole hog? Sustainability in the US pork sector

Brett Kaysen, senior vice-president, producer and state engagement lead, at the US National Pork ...

Driving change in fashion: circularity, design innovation and regulation

At the recent sustainable apparel and textiles conference in New York, Innovation Forum's Toby We...

Weekly briefing: Managing food waste across the supply chain

In this week's briefing, Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh and Bea Stevenson talk about the Internatio...

Farmer voice: how brands and buyers can help smallholders and secure supply

This week: As a preview of the 2023 future of plastics and packaging conference in Amsterdam, hea...

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Scope 3 and climate
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