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.

Better Buying 2025 Insights: Navigating Global Volatility and Defining the Next Steps for Better Purchasing Practices

Across the industry, we’re seeing a growing number of verbal commitments to long-term, balanced buyer–supplier relationships. But 63% of suppliers surveyed by Vogue Bu...

9 December 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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Building credibility in sustainability storytelling: B2C brands and the consumer trust gap

As consumers pay closer attention to brands’ sustainability claims, the challenge is no longer solely what companies do, but how they explain it clearly and honestly.T...

22 January 2026 - 14:00

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The benefits of circular fashion: a look at Eileen Fisher’s recycling operations

This week: Carmen Gama, director of circular design at Eileen Fisher, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ellen Atiyah about the operational and financial realities of circular fashion, from sorting and resale to textile-to-textile innovation. They outline why infrastructure gaps remain the biggest barrier and how the brand evaluates the business case for recycling. Plus: US shutdown threatens vital ...

27 Nov 25

Why due diligence may lead to a ‘wave of litigation’

The potential impacts of due diligence legislation in various jurisdictions are discussed by Fres...

How to create high quality apparel fibres from post-consumer garments

This week: Caroline Ledl, head of product management, textiles, at the Lenzing Group, talks about...

Innovative solutions to the ‘crisis of stuff’

This week: Steven Bethell, co-founder of Bank+Vogue and Beyond Retro, talks about the growth of c...

Has business really shifted from the why to the how on sustainability?

Prof David Grayson, campaigner and former director of the Doughty Centre at Cranfield School of M...

LandScale: tackling landscape level challenges in Guatemala

Mario Rafael Rodriguez, senior associate for LandScale at the Rainforest Alliance, and José Luis ...

Why a zero-tolerance approach to worker recruitment fees is essential

This week: David Pettet, global human rights and sustainable supply chain director at Reckitt, ta...

What EU corporate due diligence rules will actually mean for business

Innovation Forum’s Bea Stevenson talks with Salla Saastamoinen, director for civil and commercial...

Tea sector’s blend of supply chain challenges

This week: Jenny Costelloe, chief executive of the Ethical Tea Partnership, discusses how the sec...

Does a focus on the facts lead to acceptance of gene editing?

Innovation Forum founder Toby Webb talks with Jon Entine, director of the Genetic Literacy Projec...

Why there is no such thing as perfect company data

Craig Mills, CEO of Vizzuality, talks with Ian Welsh about how companies are changing the process...

The environmental and human rights legal risks business needs to know about

This week: Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer’s Elizabeth Forster and Innovation Forum’s Bea Stevenson...

SourceUp: connecting landscapes with their markets and buyers

IDH’s Matthew Spencer, Proforest’s Ruth Nussbaum and Conservation International’s John Buchanan t...

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