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

Why no one values trees more than cocoa farmers

Sebastiaan van der Hoek, forestry advisor at Cargill, discusses with Ian Welsh the potential for ...

How to source sustainable manmade textile fibres

This week: La Rhea Pepper, Claire Bergkamp and Megan Stoneburner from Textile Exchange discuss th...

The post-COP practical solutions to look for in 2022

As the dust settled from the Glasgow COP26 meetings in November, Lord Deben, chair of the UK’s Cl...

Why brands need better data to hit apparel supply chain goals

Tara Luckman, apparel sector expert, and advisor to the US Cotton Trust Protocol, and Dr Mark Sum...

2021 in review – the year that all roads led to COP26

To round off the year are extracts from some of the interviews that have featured in the Innovati...

The $10bn interventions that can halt future pandemics

Nigel Sizer, executive director of the Preventing Pandemics at the Source coalition, and former p...

From the forest frontlines: The Mai Ndombe REDD+ project, DRC

Audio only: in this 30 minute webinar, the latest in the From the Forest Frontlines series, hear ...

Why a 1.5C future will displace one billion people

This week: Andrew Wallis, CEO of UK-based trafficking and modern slavery organisation Unseen, tal...

From the Congo Basin: Market-driven solutions that preserve forests, tackle climate change and empower indigenous communities

In this 30 minute webinar, the latest in the From the Forest Frontlines series, hear from project...

Sustainable Apparel Barometer: what’s the future for viscose?

Liesl Truscott, corporate benchmarking director at Textile Exchange, Lucita Jasmin, director of s...

What does regenerative agriculture mean for the future of cotton production?

The concept of regenerative agriculture is being hailed as the new paradigm in sustainable supply...

Cocoa’s agroforestry potential

This week: Sebastiaan van der Hoek, forestry advisor at Cargill, talks about how agroforestry can...

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