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

What good looks like for food sector environmental impacts

Charlotte Bande, food sector and climate strategy lead at Quantis, talks with Ian Welsh about bes...

Why serious human rights risks remain in ICT sector supply chains

Felicitas Weber, Know the Chain project director at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre...

How the food sector can really drive climate change action

This week: Ryan Lynch, practice director for sustainability at BSI, discusses what’s required fro...

How to engage all the supply chain to deliver more sustainable cotton

Amol Mishra, global commercial director, CottonConnect describes to Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh ...

How ‘purchasing with purpose’ is impacting apparel consumer choice

Terry Lawler, fabric development manager for Naia at Eastman, discusses with Ian Welsh changing c...

Why HP and Samsung lead IT human rights benchmark, and food sector net-zero impact

This week: Felicitas Weber, Know the Chain project director at the Business and Human Rights Reso...

Why clarity from customers helps target salient human rights risks

Intel’s Mike McDonnell, senior manager for supply chain sustainability, talks with Ian Welsh abou...

Pandemic labour rights impacts in coffee and cocoa supply chains

Mary Linell-Simmons, director of marketing at Fairtrade America, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ia...

CottonConnect on why natural capital accounting can help projects scale

This week: Amol Mishra, global commercial director at CottonConnect, talks about some of the chal...

The recycling, design and performance balance for fashion

Renee Henze, global marketing and channel development director at Dupont Biomaterials, discusses,...

How the apparel sector can cut supply chain emissions and water use

PEFC’s CEO and secretary-general Ben Gunneburg and Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh talk about how so...

Consumer shifts and pandemic impacts on apparel supply chains

This week: Terry Lawler, fabric development manager for Naia at Eastman, discusses what the coron...

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