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.

Better Buying 2025 Insights: Navigating Global Volatility and Defining the Next Steps for Better Purchasing Practices

Across the industry, we’re seeing a growing number of verbal commitments to long-term, balanced buyer–supplier relationships. But 63% of suppliers surveyed by Vogue Bu...

9 December 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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Building credibility in sustainability storytelling: B2C brands and the consumer trust gap

As consumers pay closer attention to brands’ sustainability claims, the challenge is no longer solely what companies do, but how they explain it clearly and honestly.T...

22 January 2026 - 14:00

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The benefits of circular fashion: a look at Eileen Fisher’s recycling operations

This week: Carmen Gama, director of circular design at Eileen Fisher, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ellen Atiyah about the operational and financial realities of circular fashion, from sorting and resale to textile-to-textile innovation. They outline why infrastructure gaps remain the biggest barrier and how the brand evaluates the business case for recycling. Plus: US shutdown threatens vital ...

27 Nov 25

Palm oil traceability and farmer livelihoods, and some reasons to be positive about 2020

This week: Anita Neville, senior vice president for corporate communications at Golden Agri-Resou...

Defining a landscape approach and why it’s so important

Justin Adams, executive director of the Tropical Forest Alliance talks with Innovation Forum’s Ia...

The importance of ‘active listening’ for business planning

At IFC’s manufacturing conference in Morocco, Irache Pardo, finance and treasury director for Spa...

Innovation, technology and industry 4.0: a Mexican case study

Frédéric Garcia, advisor for industry to the head of staff of the president of Mexico, and former...

Accountability Framework initiative: developing corporate deforestation and commodity commitments

In the first of a new podcast series about the Accountability Framework initiative, Rainforest Al...

Business sustainability – why small changes can have big impact

This week: CB Bhattacharya, professor of sustainability and ethics at the University of Pittsburg...

Webinar – Can audits work to tackle human rights violations?

In this webinar panellists from QIMA, Aldo, Twinings and BAT discuss how companies and suppliers ...

Can business help balance smallholder farm conservation and livelihoods?

Emily Kunen from Nestlé, Gotz Martin from Golden Agri-Resources and Róisín Mortimer from Earthwor...

Why Bangladesh’s garment factories must continue to be more innovative

Rubana Huq, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, and mana...

How can certification be effective in the plastics debate?

This week: Franco Costantini, managing director of Control Union UK on how and why certification ...

Why corporate targets are no longer just fingers in the wind

Nathan Shuler, sustainability solutions architect at Schneider Electric Energy & Sustainabili...

TFA on the tradeoffs that can scale the landscape approach

This week: Justin Adams, executive director of the Tropical Forest Alliance discusses the challen...

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