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

COPwatch7: draft agreement made in Scotland, but not from girders

In the latest update from the COP26 meetings in Glasgow from Ian Welsh, news of how the first dra...

COPwatch6: Obama’s the star, but is it too late?

The latest update from Glasgow on the COP26 meetings with Ian Welsh. As Barack Obama wows the cit...

COPwatch5: how to empower indigenous people to save the forests

In the latest daily update on the COP26 meetings in Glasgow, Ian Welsh reports from the three-day...

The climate health issues where business can make a difference

The key environmental issues related to climate change are clear. But what about the human side? ...

COPwatch4: it’s not easy going green

In the latest daily update from Ian Welsh on the COP26 meetings in Glasgow, news from energy day ...

COPwatch3: show me the money!

The latest daily podcast on the events at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow with Innovation Forum’s Ia...

How to ensure climate change is the focus of business standards

Scott Steedman, director general, standards, at BSI, explains to Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh why...

COPwatch2: $19bn deal to fight deforestation, and real movement on methane

In the latest daily podcast covering the COP26 meetings in Glasgow, Ian Welsh speaks to Mighty Ea...

COPwatch: let’s keep 1.5 alive!

The first daily podcast covering the COP26 meetings in Glasgow, with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh...

The rise and rise of the voluntary carbon markets

Stephen Donofrio, director of Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace project, and co-author of the ...

Regenerative agriculture’s $70bn potential for Africa

Cassandra Austen, senior economist at Vivid Economics, Joe Robertson, senior advisor for sustaina...

Building climate smart communities in the global south

This week: Peter Williams, president of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction talks...

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