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 data gaps to compliance: the role of Geospatial AI in sustainability

Sustainability claims are facing increasing scrutiny, with rising costs, data uncertainty and growing pressure on businesses to provide verifiable proof of their effor...

22 May 2025 - 14:00

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Voices from the field: how US farmers are shaping sustainable farming

This week: Kevin Burkum, CEO of US Farmers and Ranchers in Action, and Michael Crinion, a South Dakota-based farmer and chair of USFRA, talk with Ian Welsh about the evolving challenges facing US agriculture. They explore how climate volatility, trade policies and supply chain pressures are reshaping farming, and why resilience, community and innovation are key to long-term success.Plus: Apple ...

24 Apr 25

The challenges for Coca-Cola to meet plastics targets

Joe Franses, vice-president sustainability, Coca-Cola European Partners talks with Ian Welsh abou...

Can waste be converted into plastic?

This week: Tato Bigio, CEO of UBQ Materials Israel, explains how waste destined for landfill can ...

How the 43 largest food sector companies tackle forced labour

Felicitas Weber, Know the Chain project lead at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, ta...

What is necessary for a landscape approach to work for palm oil?

This week: Olivier Tichit, director for sustainable supply chains at Musim Mas, talks about the e...

How to drive continual agri supply chain improvements

Renata Nogueira, South America sustainability manager for Cargill, and Gonzalo La Cruz, managing ...

How greener marketing counters greenwash

John Grant, writer of the new book Greener Marketing, talks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb abo...

How corporate forest policy impacts indigenous human rights

Tom Griffiths, coordinator of the responsible finance programme at the Forest Peoples Programme, ...

How commodities are going deforestation-free in Colombia

Rainforest Alliance’s Mauricio Galindo, WWF’s Camila Cammaert and Laura Rojas Salazar, ONF Andina...

The path to 100% recycled plastic for Coca-Cola

This week: Joe Franses, vice-president for sustainability at Coca-Cola European Partners, discuss...

Commodity trader impacts in ‘hour-glass’ supply chains

Janina Grabs from ETH Zurich and Sophia Carodenuto from the University of Victoria discuss with I...

Pandemic impacts on food sector forced labour risks

This week: The new food and beverage sector forced labour and human rights issues benchmark from ...

What are the business-led solutions for smallholder communities?

Peter Stanbury and Ian Welsh discuss some of the initial insights from Innovation Forum’s action ...

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