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.

Risk-proofing agrifood supply chains: demonstrating the business case for regenerative agriculture

As pressure mounts to decarbonise agrifood supply chains and meet Scope 3 targets, the case for regenerative agriculture is clearer than ever. Yet many corporate susta...

14 October 2025 - 14:00

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Food, fashion, and farmers: Finding common ground on regenerative agriculture

While the principles of regenerative agriculture aren't new, it's increasingly emerging as the industry buzzword, particularly in food and fashion.It is celebrated as ...

15 October 2025 - 15:00

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Coffee Landscapes Forum – 10 Years of Conservation International's Sustainable Coffee Challenge

Join Conservation International for the 10-year milestone of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge, marking the transition from our community’s first decade of building par...

11 December 2025 - 15:00

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Sustainable palm oil: how buyers and producers can work as true partners

This week: Rob Nicholls, general manager for programmes and projects at palm oil business Musim Mas, and Kaixiang Chin, sustainability manager for Asia at Bunge, talk with Ian Welsh about their joint "train-the-trainer" model that strengthens local capacity and builds long-term resilience for independent smallholders.  Plus: EAT-Lancet warns food systems breaching limits; Net-Zero Banking Allia...

09 Oct 25

What does the future of plastics and packaging look like?

During Innovation Forum’s recent future of plastics and packaging event in Amsterdam, some of the...

COP27 outcomes: Why the role of business is more important than ever

This week: Business and climate journalist, Mike Scott talks with Ian Welsh about the recent COP2...

Leadership for landscapes and forests: integrating actions and stakeholders

Proforest's Africa regional director, Abraham Baffoe, and deputy director for conservation and la...

Why traceability matters: blockchain solutions for sustainable chemistry

This week: Isabella Tonaco, vice-president for strategy execution and marketing, renewable polyme...

How Cargill is working to deliver on its cocoa promises

Rupert Day, farmer livelihoods advisor at Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate, talks with Ian Welsh about...

COPwatch: Has time run out for 1.5C?

Reckitt’s global head of sustainability David Croft gives some in-person insights from the COP27 ...

Information is power: how to test soil health and drive agricultural sustainability

This week: Alberto Acedo, co-founder and chief scientific officer at Biome Makers, talks about ho...

Bottom-up collaboration to improve landscape and livelihoods

Proforest's deputy director for company collaboration Veronique Bovee, and landscape coordinator ...

Incentives to improve inadequate waste infrastructure in west Africa

This week: Clem Ugorji from the Global Plastic Action Partnership, formerly vice-president for pu...

Optimised guidelines to reduce deforestation and land conversion impacts

Leah Samberg, lead scientist, global policy, at Rainforest Alliance, and McDonald's sustainabilit...

What does landscape approach delivery actually look like?

This week: Mike Senior and Abraham Baffoe from Proforest discuss how landscape approaches can wor...

Packaging decarbonisation: what are the incentives to drive success?

Juliet Ermer and Sarah Laidler from the Carbon Trust talk with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about...

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