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

INC5.2: Where do we go from here?

The Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty commissioned modelling showing that a plastic...

From hard lessons to healthy soils: farmers helping farmers in Minnesota

Alex Udermann and Mark Gutierrez, farmers at the Minnesota Soil Health Coalition, join Ian Welsh ...

Monday briefing – Bridging the gap: data, regulation and farmer livelihoods

This week: Nicole Cramer from the Rainforest Alliance talks with Ian Welsh about how data collect...

The true cost of your cup of coffee

This week: Etelle Higgonnet, founder of CoffeeWatch talks with Ian Welsh about the environmental ...

Are farmers finally getting a seat at the table?

Farmers Jocelyn Schlichting and Carla Schultz share their perspectives on the risks and realities...

Webinar recording: What’s the role of food retailers in enabling packaging sustainability?

Food retailers sit at the intersection of supply chain and consumer choice. They are uniquely pos...

Reality check: securing cocoa supply through innovation

At the recent scope 3 innovation forum in Amsterdam, Tilmann Silber, head of net zero at Barry Ca...

How can apparel build real resilience in the face of climate risk?

This week: Beth Jensen, chief impact officer at Textile Exchange talks with Innovation Forum's Ta...

Scaling coastal climate solutions: the potential for blue carbon in net-zero strategies

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

The climate-carbon conundrum for the soft commodities: what’s next for resilience?

Climate-related disruptions have stark financial implications for businesses. Last year alone, gl...

Monday briefing – Decarbonising critical minerals: tackling energy, access and market volatility

In this briefing, a snippet from the recent critical minerals webinar with World Resources Instit...

Circular fashion: decoupling growth from new garment production

At the recent sustainable apparel and textiles conference in New York, Ellen MacArthur Foundation...

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Apparel and textiles
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Scope 3 and climate
Responsible sourcing and ethical trade
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