Innovation Forum podcast

About 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.

Publisher

Innovation Forum

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Feb 2015

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1,302 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   What incoming super El Niño means for global food systems

   Andrew Coburn, founder and chair at Risilience, talks with Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh about the coming super El Niño and agricultural and financial shocks it can bring to global food supply chains. They discuss latest findings on case studies, such as crop losses at $39-375 billion, with rice, wheat, coffee and palm oil all exposed.

2. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Why nature-based solutions need a positive ROI story

   This week: James Stokes, director of business development at Lestari Capital, talks with Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh about financing nature-based solutions and ecosystem services. They discuss why nature-based investment cases lean on risk prevention rather than a positive return story, and why shifting that imbalance depends on making nature as investable as any other asset class. And, food systems exploit more workers than any other sector globally; PepsiCo's farmers protect its potato supply; major fashion coalition to fund textile waste management in Ghana; and, Australia’s high court blocks coal mine expansion, in the news digest with Babette Pagès. Host: Ian Welsh

3. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Taking care – what do cosmetic sector supply chain emissions look like?

   This week: Tory Hoffmeister, senior manager, sustainable sourcing, climate and water lead, Colgate-Palmolive, Matthias Maase, director global sustainability care chemicals, BASF, Francesco Davila Alotto, global environmental sustainability senior manager, Givaudan and Alexandra Florea, head of sustainability, Medik8, join Ian Welsh in an extract from a recent Innovation Forum webinar to talk about how the personal care sector is focusing on supply chain scope 3 emissions. Plus: critical minerals’ governance gaps; Türkiye’s climate COP31 ambitions; recycled polyester commitments from Primark; and, new UK food waste standards, in the news digest with Babette Pagès. Host: Ian Welsh For the full scope 3 webinar recording click here.

Who has been a guest on Innovation Forum podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Danielle Holly
• Vidhu Nagpal
• Alex Abbott
• Davide Braghiroli
• Alex Udermann

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

26 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

83

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

92

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Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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