Sustainable Business Podcast by Innovation Forum

How Cargill future-proofs food systems for good

Heather Tansey, vice president for environmental sustainability at Cargill, spoke with Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh about how to move towards a higher-yield, lower impact food supply system to ensure future supply security. They discuss the importance for the sector to prepare for the inevitable system shocks such as climate change and geopolitical events.

Monday briefing: doubling down on climate finance at the World Investment Forum

In this week's briefing, Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh and Bea Stevenson talk about the World Investment Forum, which commences this week in Abu Dhabi, with a focus on investing in sustainable development. Over the five days, stakeholders will convene to produce strategies and address global investment and development challenges. They also discuss World Food Day, which focuses this year on raising awareness of the importance of water management.

 

Plus, they share some details about the upcoming webinar on how forest REDD+ projects protect forests in collaboration with indigenous communities, to be held on Wednesday 18th October at 2pm BST. To join us live and receive the recording, you can register here. 

Weekly podcast – Compliance, collaboration and chemical recycling: the future of plastics and packaging

This week: At Innovation Forum's recent future of plastics and packaging conference, Ian Welsh spoke with UNEP’s Llorenç Milà I Canals, Daniel Katz from the Overbrook Foundation and Rainforest Alliance, Sebastian Munden from WRAP, Steve Hardman from Plastic Collective and Innovation Forum's Catie Ball and Tanya Richard, reflecting on the discussions and debate at the conference.

Plus: Kamudiben Satishbhai Tadavi, smallholder cotton farmer with CottonConnect, from the Narmada district in Gujarat, India, speaks with Innovation Forum's Bea Stevenson about how farmers are being impacted by climate change and extreme weather events.

And, carbon credits linked to faster decarbonisation; new tech to extract nutrients and oils from spent coffee grounds; and Zero Acre Farms attracting investment for low deforestation cooking oil, in the news digest.

 

For more information about how women cotton farmers like Kamudiben are adapting to climate change, see here: Women In Cotton: Addressing the Impact of Climate Change through Climate-friendly Practices

How to measure and track corporate emissions data

Saif Hameed, CEO of Altruistiq, talks with Ian Welsh about how companies can keep on top of data measurement and monitoring, and the tightening regulatory requirements. They discuss how stakeholder expectations are changing and what companies can do to adapt.

Transformation, traceability and transparency: from intention to action

Charlotte Bande, global food and beverage sector lead at Quantis, talks to Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh about how businesses are shifting from intention to action, when it comes to real long-term sustainability. They also discuss the difficult conversations that companies should be having internally, and how to ensure transparency is not a barrier to necessary collaboration.

Monday briefing: carbon credit trading on Tokyo Stock Exchange

In this week's briefing, Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh and Bea Stevenson talk about how Tokyo Stock Exchange traded carbon credits will work. They also discuss what we can expect from 2023's Middle East and North Africa Climate Week, a regional collaboration platform to inform the first global stocktake concluding at COP28 in November.

 

Plus, Innovation Forum's Hanna Halmari gives an update on what to expect at the sustainable commodities and landscapes forum coming up in Amsterdam from 31st October-1st November. Register here for a €100 discount – the offer expires this Friday, 13th October.

Is our food undervalued?

This week: Bex Hall, head of consulting at Sedex, talks to Ian Welsh about the factors that have led to consumer reliance on potentially undervalued food, and how food costs can be spread equitably across value chains. They also discuss how food may be going through a re-valuation process and the opportunities presented by this.

 

Plus, at Innovation Forum’s Future of Plastics and Packaging Conference in Amsterdam this week, Ian spoke with Nestle’s global public affairs lead for packaging and sustainability, Jodie Roussell. They talked about some of the trends in packaging and reflected on how the sector is shifting towards tougher mandatory compliance standards.

 

And, Starbucks develops climate-resilient coffee seeds; EU reaches deal to reduce ‘super potent’ GHGs; Global power emissions flatline in first half of 2023; and, almost £600m of surplus UK food redistributed in 2022, in the news digest with Bea Stevenson.

 

Host: Ian Welsh

 

Tackling deforestation with carbon markets in Cambodia

Say Samal, former minister for the environment and now deputy prime minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia, talks with Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh about the benefits of REDD+ carbon projects in delivering forest preservation and economic benefits in partnership with indigenous peoples and local communities in Cambodia. They discuss the importance of a partnership approach, developing economic benefits and securing land title for communities, as well as helping the country align with its Paris Agreement commitments.

Monday briefing: England’s single-use plastics ban explained

In this week's briefing, Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh and Bea Stevenson talk about what the incoming single use plastics ban means for businesses in England including retailers, vendors and the hospitality industry. They discuss the International Climate and Energy Summit coming up in Madrid, where industry, finance and civil society leaders have gathered to accelerate progress in the clean energy transition to attempt to align with the Paris Agreement.

 

Plus, ahead of this week’s future of plastics and packaging conference in Amsterdam, Innovation Forum's Diana Kim shares some useful content highlighting some of the progress made tackling plastics use in the past year.

Weekly podcast – Delivering future food supply security: a how-to guide

This week: Cargill's vice president for environmental sustainability, Heather Tansey, talks with Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh about how supply shocks have impacted the planet's food systems. They discuss the importance of future proofing for these inevitable shocks as the sector continually builds towards a higher-yield, lower impact food supply system.

 

Plus: Muhammad Muiz Bajwa, sustainability manager at South Asian Sourcing Private Limited, talks with Innovation Forum's Bea Stevenson about the impacts of climate change and the necessary adaption measures farmers need to make.

 

And, new data analysis linking soy and deforestation in Brazil; Tyson Foods and Purdue Farms investigated for child labour; and, reflections on Climate Week and the UN General Assembly in New York, in the news digest with Bea Stevenson.

 

Host: Ian Welsh