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.

INC-5: do we have the global plastic treaty we need?

The rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution poses a significant global challenge, adversely affecting environmental, social economic and health aspects of sust...

11 December 2024 - 13:00

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EUDR unpacked #2: coffee and cocoa supply chains under the lens

The likely postponement of the EUDR deadline offers coffee and cocoa supply chains more time to comply, but what do smallholder farmers think of this delay? This webin...

12 December 2024 - 13:00

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EUDR unpacked #3: palm and soy plantations under the lens

With the EUDR deadline now potentially extended, large-scale palm and soy plantations have until December 2025 (or later for smaller operators) to ensure compliance. W...

17 December 2024 - 13:00

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Understanding the opportunities from ethical trade practices

This week: Giles Bolton, executive director of the Ethical Trading Initiative, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about the shifting ethical trading and business and human rights risks and challenges. They discuss why they are getting the board room attention now that has perhaps been lacking in the past. Plus: the European Council pushes back on the “no-risk” amendment to the European Uni...

21 Nov 24

Why smallholder land tenure is a key supply chain challenge

IDH Indonesia’s Fitrian Ardiansyah speaks to Toby Webb about how companies can best work with sma...

How to capture supplier data more effectively

Laura Houghton, manager, global customer success and marketing for Segura and Simon Nicholls, man...

Is the ICT sector tackling forced labour risks?

Kilian Moote, project director for Know the Chain, takes Ian Welsh through his organisation’s lat...

Novo Nordisk: how the SDGs are shaping the future of corporate behaviour

Susanne Stormer, vice-president corporate sustainability, Novo Nordisk, explains to Ian Welsh why...

Weekly podcast: how to use natural capital accounting to drive success, and what the finance sector can do for palm oil

This week: Mark Gough from the Natural Capital Coalition explains to Ian Welsh the real benefits ...

How to deliver data-driven impact decisions

Richa Bajpai, founder of Goodera, talks with Ian Welsh about the challenges companies face measur...

Palm oil’s implementation versus commitments gap

Imperial College’s Josh Lyons-White discusses with Toby Webb a new study into barriers for palm o...

Mars: using science-based targets to reduce impacts

Ashley Allen, climate and land senior manager, Mars, talks with Toby Webb about the company’s str...

Weekly podcast: how to boost smallholder livelihoods, and modern slavery risk trends to watch

This week: IDH Indonesia’s Fitrian Ardiansyah speaks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb on how com...

The sprint to 2020: Partnerships in action to end commodity-driven deforestation.

In this webinar, in collaboration with TFA2020, an expert panel discuss examples of partnership i...

Weekly podcast: shadow companies in palm oil supply chains, and business’s social licence to operate

This week Aid Environment’s Tim Steinweg talks with Toby Webb about the work of Chain Reaction Re...

Cocoa sector’s joined up thinking in west Africa

Speaking in Accra, Ghana, the World Cocoa Foundation’s Ethan Budiansky and Innovation Forum’s Tob...

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