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

Progress on deforestation: where are the chinks of light?

Rhett Butler, founder of Mongabay, and Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb talk about the latest trends ...

Farmer focus: Cargill's collaboration for restoration in Brazil

Renata Nogueira, South America sustainability lead at Cargill, talks with Ian Welsh about partner...

Nestlé Professional presents a special webinar for Out of Home: “Nescafé Plan 2030”: the Nescafé sustainability vision and ambition for this decade"

Register online here.If you can't make the time, sign up anyway and we will send you the recordin...

Get to grips with deforestation and land conversion impacts: a how-to guide

This week: Leah Samberg, Rainforest Alliance's lead scientist, global policy, and lead on the Acc...

What do we really mean by net zero?

Tiphaine Aries, consultant at the Carbon Trust, talks with Ian Welsh about how companies are resp...

Circular by design: How apparel brands can make informed choices

Audio: All materials have impacts. Whether it be fossil fuel inputs, land and chemical use, or hu...

Circular by design: How apparel brands can make informed choices

Video: All materials have impacts. Whether it be fossil fuel inputs, land and chemical use, or hu...

What an effective vertical food supply chain looks like

This week: Insight from Rahul Raj, co-CEO of Indian vegetable supplier Sasya Produce. The company...

A how-to guide for a deforestation-free palm oil supply chain

Goetz Martin, director for sustainability and strategic projects at Golden Agri-Resources, discus...

Nestlé's road to a collaborative net-zero strategy

This week: Owen Bethell, environmental impact lead, global public affairs, at Nestlé, talks about...

Why supplier relationships are key to achieving ambitious targets

Britvic’s supply chain director Nigel Paine talks with Ian Welsh about how the £2bn soft drinks b...

Is the revolution in plant-based diets a fixture?

Chiara Vitali, senior consultant at Robertsbridge, discusses with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh so...

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