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 regulation to resilient value chains: The business case for due diligence after CSDDD simplification

Due diligence fatigue has long affected the apparel and textiles sector, with heavy administrative workloads and repeated supplier checks that often fail to identify r...

20 January 2026 - 11:00

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Building credibility in sustainability storytelling: B2C brands and the consumer trust gap

As consumers pay closer attention to brands’ sustainability claims, the challenge is no longer solely what companies do, but how they explain it clearly and honestly.T...

22 January 2026 - 14:00

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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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Can we scale carbon projects without perfect data?

This week: Nathan Truitt, executive vice president of climate funding at the American Forest Foundation, talks with Ian Welsh about the evolving role of carbon finance in supporting US family forest owners, and the tension between credit quality and affordability. They discuss what it will take for carbon markets to earn broad credibility as the world moves toward net zero.Plus: Intel retreats ...

12 Dec 25

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...

Is our food undervalued?

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

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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