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.

Financing the energy transition: trends, risks, and investor appetite

Financing remains one of the greatest barriers to scaling the energy transition. As global capital seeks stable, long-term returns, the challenge is to create financia...

25 November 2025 - 10:00

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Building credibility in sustainability storytelling: How B2B companies are strengthening trust through transparent communication

As companies set increasingly ambitious sustainability targets, the challenge is no longer just what to achieve, but how to communicate progress credibly and consisten...

25 November 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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How regenerative agriculture can cut through

This week: Earthworm Foundation's CEO Bastien Sachet joins Ian Welsh to explore why regenerative agriculture and farmer empowerment remain slow to scale despite years of corporate commitments. They discuss why businesses must rethink supply security through the lens of resilience, why long-term partnerships beat transactional sourcing, and how reinvestment in landscapes can function like reinve...

20 Nov 25

Building shared value: inside Dôen’s supplier partnership model

Kristine Kim, senior director of impact and responsible sourcing at Dôen, talks with Innovation F...

Monday briefing – EUDR and beyond: navigating risks, delays and opportunities

This week: Mark Gutierrez and Alex Udermann from the Minnesota Soil Health Coalition talk with Ia...

The $17bn challenge: building a better recycling system

This week: Keefe Harrison, chief executive of the Recycling Partnership, talks with Ian Welsh abo...

Deforestation-free leather: ambition or reality?

Fernando Bellese, senior director for beef and leather supply chains at WWF, talks with Ian Welsh...

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, ma...

Who pays? Sharing the costs and risks of regenerative agriculture

This week: Sajeev Mohankumar, senior technical specialist at FAIRR Initiative, talks with Ian Wel...

Scaling coastal climate solutions: the potential for blue carbon in net-zero strategies – webinar audio recording

Coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes – collectively known as blue c...

From beans to biodiversity: rethinking coffee’s hidden impacts

Etelle Higonnet, founder of Coffee Watch, talks with Ian Welsh about the big sustainability chall...

Food, fashion, and farmers: Finding common ground on regenerative agriculture

While the principles of regenerative agriculture aren't new, it's increasingly emerging as the in...

Weekly briefing – The economic case for financing the future of critical minerals

This week: With the global race to secure sustainable critical mineral supply chains intensifying...

Blue carbon: the untapped potential of coastal ecosystems for climate action

A recent webinar with Terraformation, Salesforce, KindWorld Projects and Conservation Internation...

Scaling coastal climate solutions: the potential for blue carbon in net-zero strategies – webinar video recording

Coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes – collectively known as blue c...

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