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

Materials innovation and sustainability: the business opportunities in 2021

In this extended discussion, hear experts from Neste, Covestro, Unilever and the European Commiss...

Renewable energy’s human rights risks

Jessie Cato from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre talks about the latest tracker fol...

Deforestation commitments without implementation in palm oil

ZSL’s Eleanor Spencer and Ian Welsh talk about the latest SPOTT survey into transparency and stre...

How the US will regain climate leadership

Nathalie Walker, director for tropical forests and agriculture at the National Wildlife Federatio...

Why financial institutions have $2.7tn of exposure to deforestation

This week: Global Canopy’s Sarah Rogerson and Emma Thomson discuss the latest Forest 500 report, ...

How to align palm oil value chains

Ying Xuen Hoe, project manager, Proforest Southeast Asia, Rashyid Redza bin Anwarudin, head, grou...

How better visibility can help de-commoditise supply chains

Niels Wielaard founder and CEO of Satelligence talks with Ian Welsh about initiatives that are de...

Scaling-up finance for sustainable agriculture

Victoria Crawford, manager of the Investment Partnership Network at Just Rural Transition, and fr...

What action is necessary for resilient smallholder supply chains?

Peter Stanbury, senior associate at Innovation Forum, talks with Ian Welsh about new research int...

2020 targets missed, so what now for palm oil?

This week: Eleanor Spencer, palm oil specialist at ZSL, on the latest SPOTT survey assessment on ...

Can beef be sustainable?

David Horlock, managing director for global food and retail supply chains at BSI talks with Ian W...

Will a due diligence approach impact deforestation?

This week: Nathalie Walker, director for tropical forests and agriculture at the National Wildlif...

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