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

How better data can drive sustainable apparel supply chains

This week: Tara Luckman, advisor to the US Cotton Trust Protocol, and Dr Mark Sumner from the sch...

ConferenceWatch2: forest and nature positive approaches in action

Ian Welsh reports from the second day of the 2021 sustainable landscapes and commodities conferen...

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...

ConferenceWatch: sustainable landscapes and commodities

Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh reports on the opening day of the 2021 landscapes and commodities ev...

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...

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