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.

State of play – The State of the energy transition: are we on track or falling behind?

The energy transition has seen remarkable growth in renewables, yet fossil fuels still account for ~80% of the global energy mix. Progress is undeniable, but ambition ...

19 November 2025 - 10:00

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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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How can palm oil growers thrive amid climate and market risks?

This week: In Colombia, Cargill and Solidaridad are partnering to help smallholder palm oil growers build more sustainable and climate-resilient supply chains. Leticia Kawanami and Joel Brounen talk with Ian Welsh about how farmer-led action plans, shared investment, and collaborative data tools are driving measurable progress – and how these lessons can scale across Latin America.Plus: at the ...

30 Oct 25

Real rural resilience: How to connect smallholder farmers directly to global markets

Innovation Forum’s “Innovation Accelerator” action research programme recently published ground-b...

How the right data can help producers access carbon credits

This week: Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Regrow, talks about the challenges for producers to be able ...

Beefing up approaches to cattle methane emissions

Cargill’s sustainability director for animal nutrition and health, Heather Tansey, talks with Inn...

Route to net zero: why vehicle electrification is the vital spark

This week: To eliminate emissions in operations – and to tackle scope 3 supply chain emissions – ...

Palm oil: it’s all about viable producer communities

Gotz Martin from Golden Agri-Resources catches up with Ian Welsh about some of the big palm oil s...

Deforestation risks: much more than just putting out fires

This week: Simon Hall, senior manager for tropical forests and agriculture at the National Wildli...

Chemical complexity: Why we need to move beyond organic versus synthetic

Jon Entine, who leads the Genetic Literacy Project, a science communication non-profit, joins Inn...

Why brands struggle to translate global goals into local progress

This week: Oxfam America’s Matt Hamilton discusses the conclusions from the new Shining a Spotlig...

Fifty shades of green: the unintended consequences of planting trees

In the first of an occasional podcast series, sustainability expert Simon Lord and Innovation For...

How Cargill cuts methane from cattle supply chains

This week: Heather Tansey, sustainability director for animal nutrition and health at Cargill, ta...

What does the roadmap to regenerative apparel look like?

Jeff Tkach, chief impact officer at the Rodale Institute, and Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb talk a...

Why multi-cropping is essential to boost smallholder incomes

Reflecting on recent Innovation Forum research, one of the project partners, Silke Peters, team l...

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