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

Get to grips with deforestation and land conversion impacts: a how-to guide

This week: Leah Samberg, Rainforest Alliance's lead scientist, global policy, and lead on the Acc...

What do we really mean by net zero?

Tiphaine Aries, consultant at the Carbon Trust, talks with Ian Welsh about how companies are resp...

Circular by design: How apparel brands can make informed choices

Audio: All materials have impacts. Whether it be fossil fuel inputs, land and chemical use, or hu...

Circular by design: How apparel brands can make informed choices

Video: All materials have impacts. Whether it be fossil fuel inputs, land and chemical use, or hu...

A how-to guide for a deforestation-free palm oil supply chain

Goetz Martin, director for sustainability and strategic projects at Golden Agri-Resources, discus...

What an effective vertical food supply chain looks like

This week: Insight from Rahul Raj, co-CEO of Indian vegetable supplier Sasya Produce. The company...

Why supplier relationships are key to achieving ambitious targets

Britvic’s supply chain director Nigel Paine talks with Ian Welsh about how the £2bn soft drinks b...

Nestlé's road to a collaborative net-zero strategy

This week: Owen Bethell, environmental impact lead, global public affairs, at Nestlé, talks about...

Is the revolution in plant-based diets a fixture?

Chiara Vitali, senior consultant at Robertsbridge, discusses with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh so...

Cargill’s commodity sourcing challenges in Brazil

This week: Renata Nogueira from Cargill discusses how to work with suppliers in Brazil to prevent...

Due diligence regulation – the risk of smallholder exclusion

Assistant professor of environmental policy at ETH Zürich Rachael Garrett and Musim Mas’s directo...

What bold social and environmental regulation implementation looks like

Environment and human rights expert Etelle Higonnet, formerly senior advisor at the National Wild...

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