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

Alternative proteins: from olive waste to insect protein

This week: in the first in story of a startup series, alternative protein business InsectBiotech’...

Digitising agriculture: innovation through science with Agmatix

In this episode of the Innovation Forum podcast, host Ian Welsh speaks with Jonathan Sullivan, vi...

Monday briefing – What’s driving sustainable packaging challenges and opportunities?

This week: Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh and Hanna Halmari share latest updates on the upcoming su...

Adaptation to Regulation: a test of corporate resilience under incoming EUDR, CS3D and CSRD regulation – Audio recording

Click here to watch the video recordingIn this webinar, we discussed the evolving regulatory envi...

How ofi plans to make the right choices for agricultural change

This week: Roel van Poppel and Christopher Stewart from food ingredients supplier ofi talk with I...

Rethinking textiles: strategies for effective decarbonisation

Krishna Manda, vice president of sustainability at sustainable cellulose textiles manufacturer Le...

Monday briefing – EUDR clock is ticking: the need for collaboration, alignment and clarity

This week: Innovation Forum’s Emily Heslop and Ian Welsh share the latest updates on the upcoming...

Adaptation to Regulation: a test of corporate resilience under incoming EUDR, CS3D and CSRD regulation – Video recording

Click here to listen to the recording as a podcastIn this webinar, we discussed the evolving regu...

How US family-owned forests can unlock carbon solutions

This week: Nathan Truitt, executive vice president for climate and funding at the American Forest...

Finding the funding for farming with public-private partnerships

Laura Satkowski, senior product manager at CIBO Technologies, talks with Ian Welsh about how inno...

Monday briefing – How to break silos for scope 3 emissions reduction

This week: Ian Welsh talks with Innovation Forum’s Hannah Oborne about this year’s scope 3 innova...

How nature-based solutions can deliver corporate sustainability commitments

 To achieve progress around nature protection, restoration and emissions mitigation at scale, col...

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