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 resilient 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

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...

From beans to biodiversity: rethinking coffee’s hidden impacts

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

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...

Who pays? Sharing the costs and risks of regenerative agriculture

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

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...

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...

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

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

Breaking silos: what apparel can learn from food and other sectors

Fashion’s climate and nature strategies are converging – but what does that mean for brands and s...

Traceability is like air traffic control: why companies can't fly blind

This week: Florent Bouguin, chief technology officer at Optel, talks with Innovation Forum's Ian ...

INC5.2: Where do we go from here? – webinar video recording

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

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