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

Human rights in the forest: How REDD+ projects strengthen human rights in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and local communities

Successful REDD+ projects that protect forests and preserve biodiversity must work in partnership...

Delivering long-term farm resilience through agroforestry

In the first part of our farmer voice series, Wakinya Samuel, a smallholder coffee farmer from Bu...

Regenerative food systems in Africa: scaling solutions to empower smallholder farmers

Over the coming decades, smallholder farmers throughout Africa will play a pivotal role in suppor...

Monday briefing: a reality check on Paris progress

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

A coffee conundrum: the impact of EUDR

This week: IDH's regional director for Asia landscapes, Chi Tran, and senior programme manager fo...

How Cargill future-proofs food systems for good

Heather Tansey, vice president for environmental sustainability at Cargill, spoke with Innovation...

Monday briefing: doubling down on climate finance at the World Investment Forum

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

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...

How to measure and track corporate emissions data

Saif Hameed, CEO of Altruistiq, talks with Ian Welsh about how companies can keep on top of data ...

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...

Tackling deforestation with carbon markets in Cambodia

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

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