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.

Deforestation-free supply chains: Addressing 2025 target dates and future trajectories

2025 is a milestone year for corporate action on deforestation and ecosystem conversion. As companies with agricultural and forestry supply chains approach 2025 target...

17 June 2025 - 15:00

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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

Monitoring soil health for sustainable and resilient farming

Biome Maker's co-founder and chief scientific officer, Alberto Acedo, talks with Ian Welsh about ...

Why we need to address plastic production before tackling pollution

This week, Christina Dixon, ocean campaign leader at the Environmental Investigation Agency talks...

West Africa’s waste collection challenges

Circularium Africa lead advisor and Global Plastic Action Partnership consultant Clem Ugorji talk...

What does the future of plastics and packaging look like?

During Innovation Forum’s recent future of plastics and packaging event in Amsterdam, some of the...

COP27 outcomes: Why the role of business is more important than ever

This week: Business and climate journalist, Mike Scott talks with Ian Welsh about the recent COP2...

Leadership for landscapes and forests: integrating actions and stakeholders

Proforest's Africa regional director, Abraham Baffoe, and deputy director for conservation and la...

Why traceability matters: blockchain solutions for sustainable chemistry

This week: Isabella Tonaco, vice-president for strategy execution and marketing, renewable polyme...

How Cargill is working to deliver on its cocoa promises

Rupert Day, farmer livelihoods advisor at Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate, talks with Ian Welsh about...

COPwatch: Has time run out for 1.5C?

Reckitt’s global head of sustainability David Croft gives some in-person insights from the COP27 ...

Information is power: how to test soil health and drive agricultural sustainability

This week: Alberto Acedo, co-founder and chief scientific officer at Biome Makers, talks about ho...

Bottom-up collaboration to improve landscape and livelihoods

Proforest's deputy director for company collaboration Veronique Bovee, and landscape coordinator ...

Incentives to improve inadequate waste infrastructure in west Africa

This week: Clem Ugorji from the Global Plastic Action Partnership, formerly vice-president for pu...

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