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.

Why healthy soils mean greater crop yields

This week: Alex Udermann and Mark Gutierrez, farmers from the Minnesota Soil Health Coalition, talk with Ian Welsh about how working on improving soil health improves productivity and farm profitability. They share insights on how healthier soils build resilience and cut inputs. And, carbon markets expert and former CEO of Verra, David Antonioli reflects on the evolving role of the markets at t...

08 Aug 25

Webinar: Regenerative agriculture in apparel with Patagonia, Primark, CottonConnect and TextileExchange

Join us for an upcoming complimentary webinar: ‘Regenerative agriculture in apparel: What does it...

Has business finally got it on climate change?

This week: Lord Deben, chair of the UK’s Climate Change Committee, reflects on the outcomes from ...

Tackling palm oil’s challenges in west Africa

Victor Tamanjong, assistant technical manager for Africa at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oi...

Why economic empowerment is the route to farmer community resilience

Peter Williams, president of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, talks with Ian ...

Food system transformation: How can carbon accounting accelerate action within the forest and land use sector?

Achieving the Paris Agreement targets requires a radical transformation of the world’s food and l...

Stop deforestation to halt pandemics

This week: Nigel Sizer, executive director of the preventing pandemics at the source coalition, t...

COPwatch9: did you really expect more?

In the final update on the COP26 climate talks, Ian Welsh and climate journalist Mike Scott give ...

COPwatch8: all eyes on Glasgow as COP deadline looms

As the scheduled end of the COP26 meetings approaches, in the latest update from Glasgow news abo...

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...

The emerging role of business in building systemic resilience

The link between climate change and human health is clear. Now we need business to step up and de...

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...

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