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 regulation to resilient value chains: The business case for due diligence after CSDDD simplification

Due diligence fatigue has long affected the apparel and textiles sector, with heavy administrative workloads and repeated supplier checks that often fail to identify r...

20 January 2026 - 11:00

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Building credibility in sustainability storytelling: B2C brands and the consumer trust gap

As consumers pay closer attention to brands’ sustainability claims, the challenge is no longer solely what companies do, but how they explain it clearly and honestly.T...

22 January 2026 - 14:00

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Bioscience for a resilient future

The world faces mounting pressure to accelerate sustainable innovation at the intersection of food, health and industrial production, but moving from scientific discov...

3 February 2026 - 15:00

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Building credibility in sustainability storytelling: How NGOs can strengthen trust through transparent communications

As expectations around sustainability communication continue to rise, NGOs are under increasing pressure to demonstrate impact, explain complexity and be open about li...

5 February 2026 - 14:00

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Leading the way for systems change: Helena Helmersson on making sustainability a core business imperative

Few leaders in the apparel and textiles industry bring as much hands-on experience across buying, production and CSR as Helena Helmersson did during her time at H&...

17 February 2026 - 10:00

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The credibility questions for scope 3 ag projects

This week: Athian Ag’s chief product officer, Kendra Tolley, talks with Ian Welsh about why demonstrable credibility is essential for agriculture scope 3 projects, and how better data, traceability and verification can strengthen confidence in value chain emissions reductions and reporting. Plus: agrifood outlook warns of continued volatility in soft commodity prices; new  questions about exten...

15 Jan 26

Dissolving the problem: zero-waste solutions for flexible packaging

This week: Vidhu Nagpal, director for flexible packaging, and Alex Abbott, chief revenue officer ...

Weekly briefing – The packaging and packaging waste directive: what it means for your business

This week: Davide Braghiroli, director for packaging sustainability solutions at Tetra Pak, talks...

Why healthy soils mean greater crop yields

This week: Alex Udermann and Mark Gutierrez, farmers from the Minnesota Soil Health Coalition, ta...

How EUDR compliance can create business value

In the second episode of Innovation Forum’s podcast series on corporate readiness for the EU Defo...

Monday briefing – Can business growth and emission cuts really go hand in hand?

This week: Kevin Rabinovitch, chief climate officer at Mars, talks with Ian Welsh about embedding...

The economics of recycling: why some packaging gets left behind

Julien Tremblin, European general manager at TerraCycle talks with Ian Welsh about the challenges...

A rancher’s take on the future of agriculture

This week: North Dakota rancher and UK Channel 5 TV personality Jay Doan joins Ian Welsh to share...

Product carbon footprinting: Advancing supplier engagement to scale decarbonization

As pressure mounts on net zero targets, product carbon footprinting (PCF) is a key emerging tool ...

Weekly briefing – How to ensure effective farmer data collection

This week: Nicole Cramer, Rainforest Alliance, talks with Ian Welsh about the challenges involved...

Testing trust: is your organic cotton really organic?

Sarah Rosenkranz and Bettina Fafengut from testing and certifiers Hohenstein Group talk with Ian ...

Tropical commodities running out of time? Resilience against the clock

This week: Barry Callebaut's head of net zero Tilmann Silber talks with Ian Welsh about how physi...

Monday briefing – The supply-demand challenges for critical minerals

This week: Innovation Forum’s Emilia Colman and Ian Welsh talk about innovation in the critical m...

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