Sustainable Business Podcast by Innovation Forum
Episodes
Weekly podcast: Bunge on traceability challenges in palm oil supply chains
21 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Ben Vreeburg, director, sustainability, at Bunge Loders Croklaan discusses how to achieve transparency to plantation level in palm oil supp...
BASF on why precision agriculture is the future
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Mackey, corporate affairs and sustainability director, BASF, speaks with Ian Welsh about the importance for agriculture’s supply chains of eff...
Weekly podcast: how data tools can deliver supply chain transparency, and viscose supply chain deforestation risks
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Jamie Barsimantov from SupplyShift, Stefan Sabo-Walsh and Erin McVeigh from Verisk Maplecroft, and Steven Wuerth from Gilead Sciences on ho...
Webinar – Procurement and social risk: how to make modern slavery a business priority
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Procurement departments are driven and incentivised by a range of KPIs. Unfortunately, social issues haven’t traditionally topped that list. But eng...
PepsiCo, Cargill and Proforest on the business-benefits of palm oil collaboration
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cargill's Marie Lavialle-Piot, PepsiCo's Natasha Schwarzbach and Proforest's Sophie Higman discuss with Ian Welsh the benefits of a landscape-level ap...
Weekly podcast: how to save lives in tropical commodity supply chains, and JLL on mapping modern slavery risks
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Jason Glaser, founder of La Isla Network, on how simple measures to allow farm workers access to water, rest and shade can save lives, and ...
Webinar – Actionable intelligence: combining data and tools to enhance supply chain visibility
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this webinar hear expert discussion on how companies can blend different data streams to proactively identify, quantify and mitigate a wide range o...
Cargill on how business can protect smallholder suppliers
05 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Clancy, sustainability manager, cocoa, at Cargill, talks with Ian Welsh about how companies can work with their supply chains to help ensure the ...
Weekly podcast: Marks & Spencer on the future for packaging and food supply chains
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Louise Nicholls, head of human rights, food sustainability and food packaging at Marks & Spencer, on how to engage consumers on plastic, ch...
Why the future for drinks packaging might be aluminium
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ramon Arratia, sustainability director, Ball Beverage Packaging Europe, discusses with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh the potential for aluminium cans...
ZSL on palm oil’s commitments versus activity gap
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Guindon, palm oil technical adviser with ZSL, talks with Ian Welsh about how the most recent SPOTT tool analysis, assessing palm oil, has prov...
Weekly podcast: how satellite data analysis can transform supply chains, and ETI, Coca-Cola and Walmart on point of recruitment risks
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Sarah Middlemiss from Ecometrica on the potential of satellite data analysis for commodity sourcing monitoring. And, Ethical Trade Initiati...
How to link reporting to better decision-making
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Hespenheide, chair of the Global Reporting Initiative, discusses with Ian Welsh how the globally-agreed language of the Sustainable Development G...
Freshfields on brands’ evolving modern slavery supply chain risks
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Bramley, global head of knowledge, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, talks with Ian Welsh about evolving legislative requirements on modern sla...
The challenges of creating organic wine in Bordeaux
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Duroux, CEO and winemaker Chateau Palmer, an organic winery in the Bordeaux region of France, talks with Innovation Forum founder Toby Webb abo...
Weekly podcast: BASF on innovation in precision agriculture, and how to engage on science-based targets
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Geoff Mackay, sustainability director at BASF, on how innovation in precision agriculture techniques can boost yields and cut the sector’...
GM’s zero-emissions transport ambition
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Tulauskas, director of sustainability at General Motors, talks with Ian Welsh about how GM plans to achieve its "zero crashes, zero emissions, z...
Why business should be more proactive on modern slavery
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Wallis, CEO, Unseen, discusses with Ian Welsh how slavery and forced labour risks are evolving. Wallis and his colleagues work with survivors o...
Weekly podcast: Cargill, PepsiCo and Proforest on landscape-level palm oil supply chain collaboration
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week: insight from Cargill, PepsiCo and Proforest on how brands and suppliers can work together effectively in the palm oil sector. And Goodera’...
Cotton Connect on how gender empowerment strengthens supply chains
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alison Ward, CEO of CottonConnect, talks with Ian Welsh about why developing better life skills in smallholder farmer communities, combined with farm-...
Ocado on how to evolve plastic packaging business models
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Suzanne Westlake, head of corporate responsibility and corporate affairs at Ocado, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about the care required t...
Weekly podcast: GRI on value from transparency and Global Agribusiness Alliance on what’s been positive in 2018
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Ruth Thomas, director of the Global Agribusiness Alliance, reflects on her favourite innovations in sustainable landscapes from 2018, and w...
The importance of soil health for sustainable wine production
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Chilton, from agricultural producer, Camellia, owner of the Linton Park winery in South Africa, talks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb about w...
Business-led behaviour change on plastic packaging
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Napthine, group marketing controller at UK food producer Cranswick, and Nick Green from Veris Strategies talk with Ian Welsh about how to develop...
Weekly podcast: Cargill on more-sustainable smallholder suppliers, and Freshfields on evolving modern slavery legal risks
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Kate Clancy, sustainability manager, cocoa and chocolate, at Cargill discusses what business can do to strengthen smallholder farmers’ bu...
Do companies even want to know what’s material to them?
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Arvai, professor of social enterprise and director of the Erb Institute, and Ian Welsh debate some of the challenges for business around how they ...
IJM: developing capacity for justice systems around the world
11 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Westlake, CEO, International Justice Mission, talks with Innovation Forum founder Toby Webb about the IJM’s work helping deliver justice for t...
Weekly podcast: General Motors’ zero-emissions future, and insight from modern slavery’s front-line
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: GM’s director of sustainability David Tulauskas on the customer-driven future for personal transportation, including full electrification...
GAR on how to develop smallholder communities that thrive
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gotz Martin, head of sustainability implementation, Golden Agri-Resources, talks with Ian Welsh about what future sustainable smallholder farmer commu...
Coca-Cola’s brand-led marketing on plastic recycling
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Franses, vice-president, sustainability, for Coca-Cola European Partners, and Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh discuss why Coke has developed a ‘w...
Weekly podcast: ZSL on palm oil sector progress, and why non-plastic packaging works for drinks
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Michael Guindon, palm oil specialist from the Zoological Society of London, gives his impressions from the recent RSPO general assembly in ...
Are science-based targets ambitious enough?
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Shuler, sustainability solutions architect at Schneider Electric, and Ian Welsh debate the rise and rise of the science-based targets movement....
How water, rest and shade saves lives in tropical supply chains
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Glaser, CEO, La Isla Network outlines to Ian Welsh his work combating kidney disease in tropical sugar cane workers, and why famers providing wa...
Weekly podcast: Ocado on the difficult choices around plastic packaging, and CottonConnect on supply chain resilience
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Suzanne Westlake, head of corporate responsibility and corporate affairs at Ocado, outlines the challenges for the online retailer on cutti...
Baroness Young on how to move from talk to action on modern slavery
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Baroness Lola Young talks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb about her frustration at the lack of progress on human rights and modern slavery and how...
Why the plastics debate needs to focus on avoiding waste
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Felix Gummer, director, Sancroft, and Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh debate why brands are becoming more fully engaged on packaging and focusing on ke...
Detroit: how local storm water management grows business opportunities
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anika Goss-Foster, executive director of Detroit Future City, discusses with Ian Welsh how local renewal projects are helping neighbourhoods in the ci...
Weekly podcast: how to measure business outcomes and impacts, and capacity building to eliminate modern slavery
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Toby Webb and Davd Westlake, CEO of the International Justice Mission debate how companies can help build capacity to tackle modern slavery...
Greenpeace’s business solutions to cut plastic waste
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Louise Edge, European campaign coordinator at Greenpeace, discusses with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb why there’s been such an explosion in intere...
Dow on how to define materiality and drive strategy
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Erica Ocampo, global sustainability strategy manager, Dow Chemical, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about how the company identifies its mat...
Weekly podcast: Coca-Cola on how to cut plastic waste and GAR on the future for rural communities
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Coca-Cola’s Joe Franses on what Coke is doing to develop better plastic recycling rates and to leverage the power of its brand to encoura...
Why Mondelez takes a holistic approach to supply chain risks
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Christine McGrath, chief well-being, sustainability, public and government affairs officer at Mondelez, and Meghann Jones, senior vice president, corp...
Weekly podcast: modern slavery progress frustrations and business plastics trends
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, speaks with Innovation Forum's Toby Webb about what business must do now to move from talk to action...
Tackling global textile waste and moving to circular supply chains
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Speaking to Innovation Forum’s Tanya Richard, Cyndi Rhoades, CEO of Worn Again Technologies, outlines the process she and her colleagues are develop...
Microsoft and Hilton on sustainability’s business case and how to save $1bn
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Daniella Foster, senior director for global corporate responsibility at Hilton, and Jennifer Marsman, principal software development engineer at Micro...
Weekly podcast: Greenpeace on plastics pollution and Dow on corporate materiality
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Louise Edge, European campaign coordinator at Greenpeace, talks to Toby Webb about some of the key actions companies need to take on plasti...
Investment community engagement on modern slavery
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Bloomer, executive director of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, talks with Ian Welsh about why there are still only a small number ...
Webinar – Sustainable commodities: is the landscape approach the future?
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With 2020 fast approaching, companies are facing increasing pressure in cleaning up their supply chains and ensuring the sustainable sourcing of commo...
Weekly podcast: Mondelez’s deforestation impacts in west Africa
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Christine McGrath from Mondelez International and Meghann Jones from Ipsos talk with Ian Welsh about the impacts of Mondelez’s Cocoa Life...
Plastic pollution: design products so they can be made again
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Wingstrand, new plastics economy research analyst from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, talks to Ian Welsh about plastics and the essential transi...
Why palm oil is about more than deforestation
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anita Neville, Golden Agri-Resources’ vice-president of corporate communications and sustainability relations, talks with Ian Welsh about GAR’s ne...
Weekly podcast: why engaging the C-suite requires more than ‘greed and fear’
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Daniella Foster, senior director for global corporate responsibility at Hilton, and Jennifer Marsman, principal software development engine...
Weekly podcast: how business can really cut plastic use, and the key deforestation questions
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: insight from the recent Innovation Forum webinar on the business challenges in developing realistic alternatives to plastic packaging, with...
How sanctions are nudging business on forced labour
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Brown Cripps global sanctions counsel, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, talks with Ian Welsh about how governments – particularly the US –...
Weekly podcast: why there’s been a transformation in corporate action on modern slavery
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Phil Bloomer, executive director of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, on why companies just can’t afford to have modern slav...
Webinar: what will a sustainable rural community look like in 2030?
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sustainable rural economies are critical to the sustained success of global agri-businesses. After all, smallholder farming accounts for the largest s...
Diageo's business case for social and environmental impact engagement
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Harriet Howey, global sustainability reporting executive at Diageo, explains to Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh how the company measures return on inve...
Weekly podcast: designing plastics to be used again, and palm oil’s human stories
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Sara Wingstrand from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on how better plastic product design can help business develop essential more-circular ...
Deforestation: can we separate the food and fuel debates?
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Speaking at the recent RSPO meeting in Paris, Mickael Blais from the French Alliance for Forest Preservation and Toby Webb, Innovation Forum, discuss ...
Webinar: how brands can drive sustainable innovation in plastics and packaging
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this webinar, practitioners from Iceland Foods, Surfdome and CupClub take a pragmatic look at what brands are doing to face the challenges around p...
Investor protocols to avoid funding modern slavery
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Valentina Gurney, associate programme director, Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility and Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh discuss trends in how...
Weekly podcast: what to do about point-of-recruitment modern slavery risks
06 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: some highlights from Innovation Forum’s recent webinar on what business needs to know about forced labour risks at the point of recruitme...
Palm oil’s complex impact on biodiversity
05 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Meijard, founder of Borneo Futures, discusses why the palm oil sector has such a bad reputation on biodiversity impacts with Innovation Forum’s...
Weekly podcast: Diageo’s return from social and environmental investment
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Harriet Howey from Diageo talks to Ian Welsh about how the business tracks the impacts of its social and environmental programmes and the r...
Webinar: how can materiality drive sustainability reporting and strategy?
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There are many factors that have lead to the increased awareness of environmental, social and governance – or ESG – issues. These sustainability ...
All you need to know about materiality
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Judy Kuszewski, chief executive of Sancroft, and Toby Webb from Innovation Forum debate approaches to corporate materiality. Kuszewski outlines the re...
How to go all in on corporate sustainability
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Grayson, emeritus professor of corporate responsibility, Cranfield University, speaks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb about how understandin...
How BNP Paribas promotes sustainable palm oil
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Elisabeth Hipeau, senior industry analyst, BNP Paribas, explains to Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb the bank’s approach to dealing with deforestation...
Weekly podcast: changing corporate deforestation commitments and impact of slavery sanctions
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Mickael Blais from the French Alliance for Forest Protection talks to Toby Webb about how company commitments on deforestation across diffe...
Business benefits of the natural capital approach
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Gough, executive director of the Natural Capital Coalition explains to Ian Welsh how the natural capital protocol has been developed and why it i...
Webinar – Responsible recruitment: tackling forced labour at the root
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recruitment is often the stage at which workers in supply chains can be most vulnerable to falling into modern slavery and bonded labour. They are for...
Is slavery the greatest human rights risk for business?
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Yousuf Aftab, principal at Enodo Rights, explains to Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh why modern slavery is both a salient and material risk for companies...
Weekly podcast: why investors expect more on modern slavery, and palm oil's biodiversity impact
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Valentina Gurney from the Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility talks to Ian Welsh on trends in disclosure and behaviour change tha...
Capacity building to enforce modern slavery laws
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Gehring, director of global policy and partnership, International Justice Mission and Ian Welsh discuss why governments worldwide require help to ...
How to achieve supply chain trust
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Antoine Heuty, founder and CEO of Ulula, talks with Ian Welsh about what is required to effectively develop transparency for workers in supply chains,...