Sustainable Business Podcast by Innovation Forum

Weekly podcast: How partnership empowers Ghana’s cocoa growers

This week: Eunice Oduro, project manager at anti-poverty NGO CARE in Ghana and Samuel Apana, Cargill’s cocoa sustainability lead in Ghana, talk about their long-term partnership that has helped secure the sector’s long term future, building farm resilience and empowering rural communities.

Plus: Target’s new targets; University of Cambridge’s plastic polymer from soy proteins; International Monetary Fund calls for $75 carbon price; and Lego bricks from recycled plastic bottles, in the news digest.

Host: Ian Welsh  

CCC’s Julia King on business adaptation for climate change

At Innovation Forum’s recent future for climate action conference, Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, chair of the Carbon Trust, and chair of the adaptation sub-committee of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change – the statutory non-departmental body set up to advise the United Kingdom and the devolved UK governments and parliaments on tackling and preparing for climate change – speaks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh. Their wide-ranging discussion includes prospects for the upcoming COP26 meeting in Glasgow, the urgent need for business to adapt to climate change and the possible implications for public policy around corporate greenhouse gas emissions. 

Webinar – 10 years of sustainability in action: towards a forest positive future

In 2010, Nestlé made a commitment to end deforestation in its supply chain. In this webinar, join Nestlé's forest and sustainable sourcing leaders along with additional experts who will discuss what is needed to achieve a ‘forest positive’ future. They will consider how land rights intersect with conservation; the role satellite monitoring can play in combatting deforestation; and, how we can go beyond fighting deforestation to support active reforestation where it's needed most.

Panellists:

• Emily Kunen, climate delivery leader for forests, Nestlé
• Bastien Sachet, executive director, Earthworm Foundation
• Benjamin Ware, head of sustainable sourcing and climate delivery, Nestlé
• Andy White, coordinator, Rights and Resources Initiative
• Fabiola Zerbini, regional director for Latin America, Tropical Forest Alliance

Moderator: Toby Webb, founder, Innovation Forum

This webinar was supported by Nestlé.

 

Weekly podcast: Seafood sector climate change impacts, and apparel sector forced labour risks

This week: Expert insight from Cargill’s Dave Robb, Thai Union’s Tracy Cambridge, the Marine Stewardship Council’s Erin Priddle and the Nature Conservancy’s Mark Zimring on how the seafood sector should respond to market concerns on climate change and shifting fish stocks, and the role of business in managing these effectively.

And the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre’s Felicitas Weber discusses the key findings in the latest Know the Chain benchmark research into big apparel sector companies and the forced labour risks in their supply chains.

Host: Ian Welsh

Why responsible forests mean supply chain clarity

Pina Gervassi, FSC’s climate director, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about the benefits from transparency in forest-based raw material supply chains, and the innovation in newly certified sectors including rubber and bamboo. They discuss the credibility that can come with certification and how growers can develop value from ecosystem services by moving from thinking about performance to impact.

FSC was a sponsor of the recent sustainable apparel and textiles conference.

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Weekly podcast: Why natural climate solutions are about much more than just planting trees

Danone’s Marie-Pierre Bousquet Lecomte, Nestlé’s Conor McMahon, Cargill’s Robert Horster, and Everland’s Joshua Tosteson join Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb to discuss how to implement natural climate solutions that deliver large scale greenhouse gas reduction. The panel talks about why such solutions are featuring ever-more prominently at the forefront of corporate commitments and strategy.  

Plus: investors worth $41tn demand greater government effort on climate change via the Investor Agenda; Global Witness links Chinese banks with deforestation; US egg farmers embracing regenerative agriculture; and Waitrose ups recycled plastic in packaging, in the news digest.

Host: Ian Welsh  

How to align targets in a coffee and cocoa landscape

Patricia Quijandría, director for the tropical Andes at Rainforest Alliance is joined by project partners Camila Olmedo, from agriculture commodities trader Ecom, and Jose Carlos Apaéstegui from finance provider Norandino to discuss with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh a LandScale programme pilot project in Lamas Province, northern Peru. They discuss the challenges aligning stakeholder expectations and targets, and how taking a landscape approach can help provide solutions.

This podcast is supported by LandScale.

Regenerative forestry’s role in cutting fossil fuel plastics

Eduardo Rojas-Briales, forestry professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and a board member of PEFC, talks with Ian Welsh about the potential for the forestry sector providing sustainable fibre for the apparel sector and others. They also debate the role of properly managed forests in biodiversity preservation and tackling climate change.

 

PEFC was a sponsor of Innovation Forum’s recent sustainable apparel and textiles conference.

Weekly podcast: How to unlock food sector efficiencies

This week: Sir Ian Boyd, professor of biology at the University of St Andrews, talks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb. Their discussion includes the potential impacts of COP26 on agriculture and food supply systems, and why the food sector needs to become between five and 10 times more efficient.

Plus: brand and retailer coalition calls for stronger EU anti-deforestation regulation; consumer concern on climate and biodiversity increasing, says Economist Intelligence Unit and WWF report; Pirelli launch FSC-certified tyres; paper-based bottles from Absolut, Carlsberg and Diageo; the rise of green steel; and, ExxonMobil and Chevron mugged by shareholder activists, in the news digest.

Host: Ian Welsh    

Please note that Innovation Forum’s future of food event, referred to in the podcast, is from 15^th-17^th June. Click here for details.

Weekly podcast: Why business needs to accelerate climate adaptation, now

This week: Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, chair of the Carbon Trust and from the UK’s Committee on Climate Change, talks about what business should hope for from COP26. Strong policy measures are necessary for the acceleration to net zero, but companies need to be ready to adapt to changes that will come even within a 1.5C pathway. Baroness Brown was speaking at Innovation Forum’s Future of Climate Action conference.

Plus: Pina Gervassi, FSC’s climate director, discusses how visibility and transparency in supply chains can deliver on climate and deforestation targets. She gives insight into how rubber suppliers, for the apparel sector and others, are working hard to lower impacts. And she outlines how businesses – for example in the wine sector – can access value from ecosystem services.

Host: Ian Welsh

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