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.

From regulation to resilient value chains: The business case for due diligence after CSDDD simplification

Due diligence fatigue has long affected the apparel and textiles sector, with heavy administrative workloads and repeated supplier checks that often fail to identify r...

20 January 2026 - 11:00

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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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Bioscience for a sustainable future

The world faces mounting pressure to accelerate sustainable innovation at the intersection of food, health and industrial production, but moving from scientific discov...

3 February 2026 - 15:00

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Building credibility in sustainability storytelling: How NGOs can strengthen trust through transparent communications

As expectations around sustainability communication continue to rise, NGOs are under increasing pressure to demonstrate impact, explain complexity and be open about li...

5 February 2026 - 14:00

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Are carbon markets entering a new phase?

This week: Verra's chief programme development and innovation officer, Candace Vinke, talks with Ian Welsh about how improvements in methodologies, verification and safeguards are resharing carbon credit integrity, and what that means for the markets' future. They discuss how emerging standards may influence how companies use carbon credits and value chain abatement as part of their net zero st...

09 Jan 26

Highlights from the Critical Minerals Innovation Forum

The Critical Minerals Innovation Forum brought together the full value chain from lithium and cob...

Monday briefing – The reality of digital product passports: what, how, and why?

This week: Tara St James, senior director of sustainability at Canadian apparel brand Moose Knuck...

Building trust with smallholders in Indonesia's palm oil sector

Rob Nicholls, general manager for programmes and projects at palm oil business Musim Mas, and Kai...

Can microbes make the food system more sustainable?

This week: Cargill's vice president of global core research and development, Cordell Hardy, talks...

What fuels fashion’s challenges?

This week: Innovation Forum’s Niamh Campbell talks with Liv Simplicianco, head of policy and rese...

Building a better recycling system: data, design and policy

Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership, talks with Ian Welsh about how data, design, an...

Introducing the Sustainable Communications and Engagement Series

As sustainability strategies mature, the pressure is increasing on how companies communicate prog...

Building trust and finance for regenerative supply chains

Sajeev Mohankumar, senior technical specialist at the FAIRR Initiative, talks with Ian Welsh abou...

How can palm oil growers thrive amid climate and market risks?

This week: In Colombia, Cargill and Solidaridad are partnering to help smallholder palm oil growe...

What circular fashion can learn from tech and energy

This week: Barry McGeough, group vice president of innovation and strategy at AmeriCo Group, talk...

Risk-proofing agrifood supply chains: demonstrating the business case for regenerative agriculture (audio recording)

As pressure mounts to decarbonise agrifood supply chains and meet Scope 3 targets, the case for r...

Webinar recording: Science-based targets: How are corporates turning ambition into business value?

Science-based targets (SBTs) have become the gold standard for corporate climate ambition. Yet se...

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Scope 3 and climate
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