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.

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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Can we scale carbon projects without perfect data?

This week: Nathan Truitt, executive vice president of climate funding at the American Forest Foundation, talks with Ian Welsh about the evolving role of carbon finance in supporting US family forest owners, and the tension between credit quality and affordability. They discuss what it will take for carbon markets to earn broad credibility as the world moves toward net zero.Plus: Intel retreats ...

12 Dec 25

Weekly briefing: What to expect at Asia-Pacific Climate Week

In this week's briefing, Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh and Bea Stevenson talk about Asia-Pacific C...

Live from the conference: the future of climate action and sustainable commodities

This week: At Innovation Forum's future of climate action conference in Washington DC, Ian Welsh ...

Sustainable plastics and packaging: innovations and challenges ahead

During Innovation Forum's recent future of plastics and packaging conference in Amsterdam, some o...

Monday briefing: how far are we from meeting the Paris Agreement goals?

In this week's briefing, Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh and Bea Stevenson talk about the launch of ...

Landscape collaboration to drive progress towards sustainable land use

This week: Jack Hurd, executive director of Tropical Forest Alliance, and Emily Kunen, senior dir...

Re-evaluating the cost of food

Bex Hall, head of consulting at Sedex, talks to Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh about how decreasing...

Human rights in the forest: How REDD+ projects strengthen human rights in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and local communities

To watch the recording as a video, click here.Successful REDD+ projects that protect forests and ...

From nature risk to resilience: rethinking corporate sustainability

This week: Deloitte's senior manager for sustainability, climate and equity, Nabarun Sengupta tal...

Human rights in the forest: How REDD+ projects strengthen human rights in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and local communities

Successful REDD+ projects that protect forests and preserve biodiversity must work in partnership...

Delivering long-term farm resilience through agroforestry

In the first part of our farmer voice series, Wakinya Samuel, a smallholder coffee farmer from Bu...

How climate change is impacting women farmers

In part two of our farmer voice series, Innovation Forum's Bea Stevenson speaks with Deborah Osei...

Regenerative food systems in Africa: scaling solutions to empower smallholder farmers

Over the coming decades, smallholder farmers throughout Africa will play a pivotal role in suppor...

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