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

Pandemic labour rights impacts in coffee and cocoa supply chains

Mary Linell-Simmons, director of marketing at Fairtrade America, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ia...

CottonConnect on why natural capital accounting can help projects scale

This week: Amol Mishra, global commercial director at CottonConnect, talks about some of the chal...

The recycling, design and performance balance for fashion

Renee Henze, global marketing and channel development director at Dupont Biomaterials, discusses,...

How the apparel sector can cut supply chain emissions and water use

PEFC’s CEO and secretary-general Ben Gunneburg and Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh talk about how so...

How to increase apparel supply chain transparency beyond tier 2

Joining Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb at the recent sustainable apparel and textiles conference ar...

Consumer shifts and pandemic impacts on apparel supply chains

This week: Terry Lawler, fabric development manager for Naia at Eastman, discusses what the coron...

Carbon Trust on the corporate challenges in achieving net zero emissions

Pauline Op de Beeck, client manager at the Carbon Trust, and Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh discuss...

Intel on supplier mapping, and Fairtrade America on pandemic impacts on human rights

This week: Mary Linnell-Simmons, Fairtrade America’s director of marketing, discusses some of the...

How to develop effective grievance systems that workers trust

Drew Northern, director, global anticorruption at Cook Group, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian W...

Can apparel successfully transition to a circular economy?

Recorded at the recent Innovation Forum sustainable apparel and textiles conference are Anna Mari...

Sustainable forest fibres and net-zero emissions challenges

This week: Ben Gunneberg, CEO of PEFC International, on the benefits for the apparel sector from ...

Dupont on apparel sector circular economy models

This week: Renee Henze, global marketing and channel development director, Dupont Biomaterials, t...

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