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

Why business must develop human rights with recourse

This week: Drew Northern from US-based Cook Group describes the importance of establishing effect...

Tracking food supply chains to develop pandemic response

Bryan Yates, general manager and director of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Orbital ...

The forest fibre potential for the apparel sector

This week: Andrés Ortolano, FSC Italy chain of custody manager, and Ruth Farrell, textiles market...

How the pandemic should be managed to minimise human rights impact

Phil Bloomer, executive director of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, talks with Inn...

H&M and Puma on apparel’s low carbon future

This week: H&M’s Pascal Brun and Puma Group’s Stefan Seidel debate action on climate change a...

Webinar – Companies as human rights defenders: the future of ethical trade?

In this session, an expert panel discusses the opportunity for business to act as human rights de...

Webinar – Supplier engagement and training on human rights: How to scale programs across supply chains

Working with suppliers is key to implementing human rights policy, and driving greater understand...

How geospatial data analysis can track pandemic impacts on food supply chains

This week: Bryan Yates, general manager and director of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa ...

Webinar – What is the right level of corporate disclosure on human rights?

Corporate transparency on human rights has never been more important, and many initiatives have b...

Webinar – Responsible recruitment: How to mitigate risk of modern slavery reaching supply chains

At the point of recruitment, workers are often at their most vulnerable to falling into modern sl...

Webinar – Human rights legislation and worldwide compliance: How to keep ahead of the regulatory curve

With continually evolving regulatory growth, international compliance has become all the more com...

Webinar – Child labour monitoring and remediation: How are corporate approaches evolving?

The effective abolition of child labour is one of the 10 UN Global Compact principles aiming to p...

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