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.

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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What circular fashion can learn from tech and energy

This week: Barry McGeough, group vice president of innovation and strategy at AmeriCo Group, talks with Innovation Forum's Niamh Campbell to discuss why applied innovation will be key to tackling fashion’s waste crisis. From biotech to AI, they discuss how lessons from other industries can help apparel move from talk to tangible action.Plus: At the sustainable commodities and landscapes forum t...

24 Oct 25

What EU corporate due diligence rules will actually mean for business

Innovation Forum’s Bea Stevenson talks with Salla Saastamoinen, director for civil and commercial...

Tea sector’s blend of supply chain challenges

This week: Jenny Costelloe, chief executive of the Ethical Tea Partnership, discusses how the sec...

Why there is no such thing as perfect company data

Craig Mills, CEO of Vizzuality, talks with Ian Welsh about how companies are changing the process...

Does a focus on the facts lead to acceptance of gene editing?

Innovation Forum founder Toby Webb talks with Jon Entine, director of the Genetic Literacy Projec...

The environmental and human rights legal risks business needs to know about

This week: Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer’s Elizabeth Forster and Innovation Forum’s Bea Stevenson...

SourceUp: connecting landscapes with their markets and buyers

IDH’s Matthew Spencer, Proforest’s Ruth Nussbaum and Conservation International’s John Buchanan t...

Why companies must continue to source from ‘high-risk’ countries

Niels Wielaard, founder of Satelligence, and Ian Welsh, talk about traceability-to-plantation inn...

Is business moving to a ‘just in case’ approach to supply chains?

This week: David Grayson, campaigner and former director of the Doughty Centre at Cranfield Schoo...

Cocoa child labour – how cash transfer schemes can help

Megan Passey, head of knowledge and learning at the International Cocoa Initiative, talks with Ia...

How to identify human rights risks in production landscapes

This week: José Luis López, palm oil and biodiversity programme manager at Solidaridad, and Mario...

Nestlé’s plan to tackle cocoa child labour

Toby Webb and Peter Stanbury reflect on Nestlé’s new strategy for the cocoa sector, with the ambi...

How the apparel sector can cut 45% emissions by 2030

Textile Exchange’s COO Claire Bergkamp and director of Climate+ strategy Beth Jenson talk with Ia...

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Food and agriculture
Scope 3 and climate
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Landscapes and commodity sourcing