26 Mar 21 | Podcast
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...
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.
Innovation for resilient food and health systems: how bioscience is driving transformational impact
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
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
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
Can green hydrogen decarbonise heavy industry?
This week: StormFisher Hydrogen’s chief executive officer, Judson Whiteside, talks with Ian Welsh about developing carbon-neutral e-methanol and e-methane from green hydrogen, and how policy incentives and corporate scope 3 pressures are shaping global demand for low-carbon fuels. He also explores the role of North America’s renewable power advantage, the realities of scaling hydrogen projects,...
22 Jan 26
25 Mar 21 | Podcast
Why multi-cropping is essential to boost smallholder incomes
Reflecting on recent Innovation Forum research, one of the project partners, Silke Peters, team l...
19 Mar 21 | Podcast
Greenpeace on certification’s failings, and how they should be fixed
Toby Webb speaks with Grant Rosoman, senior forests campaigner at Greenpeace, about the organisat...
19 Mar 21 | Weekly podcast
Is smallholder farming really a broken model?
Gotz Martin, head of sustainability implementation at Golden Agri-Resources, explains why food sy...
18 Mar 21 | Podcast
What’s the solution to the profit pursuit problem?
Business has lost its purpose, says Prof Andy Hoffman from the Ross School of Business at the Uni...
12 Mar 21 | Weekly podcast
What will future materials be made from?
This week: Neste’s Lars Börger, Covestro’s Lynette Chung, Unilever’s Marika Lindstrom and Werner ...
11 Mar 21 | Podcast
Organic cotton's sector-changing potential
In the first of a new quarterly podcast series, Textile Exchange CEO La Rhea Pepper talks with In...
05 Mar 21 | Weekly podcast
GIZ on why producer communities need a stronger voice
This week: Silke Peters from the sustainable agriculture supply chain initiative at GIZ talks abo...
04 Mar 21 | Podcast
How cotton learns from other commodity supply chains
Alison Ward, CEO of CottonConnect, talks with Ian Welsh about the durability of cotton supply cha...
26 Feb 21 | Weekly podcast
Will future business leaders use their power differently?
This week: Andy Hoffman, professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, ...
19 Feb 21 | Weekly podcast
How an ecosystems services approach helps all producer communities
This week: Hear Musim Mas’s Olivier Tichet outline his ‘magic ingredients’ for landscape level so...
18 Feb 21 | Podcast
Are financial institutions ignoring deforestation?
Sarah Rogerson and Emma Thomson from Global Canopy talk with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about t...