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

Stop deforestation to halt pandemics

This week: Nigel Sizer, executive director of the preventing pandemics at the source coalition, t...

COPwatch9: did you really expect more?

In the final update on the COP26 climate talks, Ian Welsh and climate journalist Mike Scott give ...

COPwatch8: all eyes on Glasgow as COP deadline looms

As the scheduled end of the COP26 meetings approaches, in the latest update from Glasgow news abo...

The emerging role of business in building systemic resilience

The link between climate change and human health is clear. Now we need business to step up and de...

COPwatch7: draft agreement made in Scotland, but not from girders

In the latest update from the COP26 meetings in Glasgow from Ian Welsh, news of how the first dra...

COPwatch6: Obama’s the star, but is it too late?

The latest update from Glasgow on the COP26 meetings with Ian Welsh. As Barack Obama wows the cit...

COPwatch5: how to empower indigenous people to save the forests

In the latest daily update on the COP26 meetings in Glasgow, Ian Welsh reports from the three-day...

COPwatch4: it’s not easy going green

In the latest daily update from Ian Welsh on the COP26 meetings in Glasgow, news from energy day ...

The climate health issues where business can make a difference

The key environmental issues related to climate change are clear. But what about the human side? ...

How to ensure climate change is the focus of business standards

Scott Steedman, director general, standards, at BSI, explains to Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh why...

COPwatch3: show me the money!

The latest daily podcast on the events at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow with Innovation Forum’s Ia...

COPwatch2: $19bn deal to fight deforestation, and real movement on methane

In the latest daily podcast covering the COP26 meetings in Glasgow, Ian Welsh speaks to Mighty Ea...

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