Sustainable Business Podcast by Innovation Forum

Lindex, KappAhl and the Stockholm International Water Institute discuss collaboration

Ian Welsh talks to Anna-Karin Dahlberg from Lindex, Eva Kindgren de Boer from KappAhl and Maya Rebermark from the Stockholm International Water Institute about sustainable water use and competitive collaboration around their project, Sweden Textile Water Initiative.

Solidaridad's Isabelle Roger on sustainable cotton

Ian Welsh from Innovation Forum chats to Isabelle Roger, senior manager at Solidaridad, about their new report on sustainable cotton, which brands are leading in the sector and the importance of supply chain mapping.

Cynthia Carroll discusses cultural change in the extractives industry

Toby Webb chats to Cynthia Carroll, chairman at Vedanta Resources Holdings, about the changing landscape of the extractives industry, including health and safety developments and gender diversity.

Third party risk in the extractives sector with Thomson Reuters

Ian Welsh is joined by James Swenson and Michael Harris of Thomson Reuters. The three discuss unique extractives sector risk, fluctuating prices and changing risk, and bribery and corruption.

Ethical Fashion Forum's Tamsin Lejeune on four big challenges facing the industry

Tamsin talks to Eilidh at Innovation Forum about what she thinks are the four biggest sustainability challenges facing the fashion industry at the moment, and where we need to go from here.

Business risks and challenges for big data and sustainability

In partnership with CDRC, the panel is made up by the University of Leeds, ASDA, Callcredit and Samsung.

They discuss:

• What are the opportunities from the use of big data?
• How are companies looking at long-term trends in customer buying patterns? How does this compare with attitudes in terms of sustainable buying choices?
• What are the challenges and opportunities presented by developments in smart gadgets? How can these be used to manage big data?
• How can data sets be segmented to give useful information on attitudes towards sustainability issues?

Supply Chain Risk & Innovation: May 2016

Ian Welsh and Tom Idle discuss what's coming up in the May issue of Supply Chain Risk & Innovation.

We delve into the RSPO fall out with IOI, our long-read explores the pros and cons of certification, standards and labeling and we have a Q&A with Dupont. 

Apple feature as our corporate case study and our targets vs achievements piece is with Heineken. Our sector profile is all about sugar and we take a quick look at our June/July issue.

Stephen Donofrio reflects on progress around deforestation commitments

Toby Webb talks to Stephen Donofrio about the importance of bringing a range of brands, NGOs and other stakeholders together to work collectively around deforestation commitments, and about Stephen's new report, Supply Change.

Rhett Butler explains his increased optimism around forest conservation

Rhett Butler from Mongabay chats to Toby Webb about forest conservation, deforestation commitments, tech developments and land rights. 

Rainforest Action Network's Lafcadio Cortesi discusses deforestation commitments and corresponding outcomes

Toby Webb chats to Lafcadio Cortesi, Asia campaigns director at Rainforest Action Network about big brand's ambitious deforestation commitments, implementation on the ground, certification, peat-land and lidar.