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.

Nestlé income accelerator program: Annual Progress Report

In 2022, Nestlé launched the “Income Accelerator Program”, an innovative family-centred approach aimed at closing the living income gap and reducing child labour risks...

25 June 2025 - 13:30

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Seeing the unseen: data, disruption and supply chain strategy

This week: Olivia Dobson, director of climate and resilience at Verisk Maplecroft, joins Ian Welsh to explore interconnected supply chain risks, the shift toward enterprise-level risk consideration, and emerging challenges around supply chain visibility. They examine how geopolitical uncertainties, regulatory compliance and data management are reshaping sourcing strategies. Plus: Ulla Hueppe, v...

12 Jun 25

Managing expectations in Africa’s forests *

When very different worlds collide, some discordance should probably be expected. This is what Go...

TFT's Scott Poynton on certification

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Breaking palm oil’s deforestation link

Sime Darby is the largest producer of certified sustainable palm oil. But how would you describe ...

Millennials demand sustainability. Really?

Are so-called millennials – the demographic cohort born from around 1980 up to 2000 – more sustai...

The thoughtful route to circularity

First the easy part: the concept of the circular economy is now well understood. Its basic princi...

Progress in the forests for APP

In October 2014, when Scott Poynton of TFT, Simon Lord of New Britain Palm Oil and I got together...

Talking to farmers about cotton sustainability

Alison Ward outlines her views on how to manage cotton sustainability with farmers, consumers and...

The business case for sustainable cotton

Alison Ward discusses how CottonConnect, with its mission as a social enterprise, is engaging all...

Sustainability and cotton in China

In this podcast episode, Innovation Forum founder Toby Webb talks to the CEO of CottonConnect, Al...

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