Sustainable Business Podcast by Innovation Forum

This episode focuses on the EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and its implementation challenges.

Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh interviews David Clark, Chief Sustainability Officer at packaging manufacturer Amcor, about extended producer responsibility regulations.

This webinar discusses how regenerative agriculture can de-risk agri-food supply chains by moving beyond carbon reduction to demonstrate its business case as a long-term value driver for resilience and stakeholder expectations.

This episode previews an interview about using green hydrogen to produce carbon-neutral fuels for heavy industries like shipping, driven by corporate ESG demands and policy penalties.

The Sustainable Business Podcast, hosted by Ian Welsh, examines whether critical mineral value chains can meet the EU battery passport requirements that become mandatory in February 2027.

Liz Hirshfield, Katie O'Hare, Philippa Blumender, and Larkin Martin examine how regenerative cotton can move beyond pilots into supply-chain scale, with Hirshfield identifying 2026 as a possible tipping point.

Ian Welsh interviews Impact Buying CEO Leontien Hasselman-Kluge about how the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation will expand the packaging data companies must collect.

Innovation Forum host Niamh Campbell interviews Esme Chiverton and Fiona Bretherton of New Zealand apparel brand Untouched World about its zero textile waste to landfill goal.

Fashion for Good's Femke Jonkman explains how the Price Parity Toolkit separates innovation and integration premiums from the physical price of next-generation apparel materials.

This episode previews an upcoming webinar on regenerative agriculture in the cotton sector and discusses trends in sustainable business, including worker empowerment and Scope 3 emissions.

This episode discusses the challenges and strategies for scaling flexible packaging recycling in Europe through the CFLEX initiative's efforts to align stakeholders and improve collection, sorting, and recycling technologies.

Innovation Forum’s webinar, hosted by Ellen Atiyah, asks how food companies can meet nutrition and sustainability expectations at scale, with Griffith Foods, Oatly, and Unilever all arguing the same commercial point.

Unseen CEO Andrew Wallace tells Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh that the UK's modern slavery cost of about £60 billion, 2% of GDP, makes inaction "anti-growth." He surveys forced labour bans and due diligence laws across the US, Canada, Mexico, the EU (from 2027), Australia, Thailand and the UK, with business asking governments to "standardise." He says investors with over £5 trillion in assets under management want these laws, and he cites Aberdeen Investments pulling £70 million from Boohoo.

Cargill's Lyle DePauw says demand for sustainable aviation fuel is expected to double by 2040, and that used cooking oil, tallow and soybean oil are "relatively insufficient" to meet it.

This episode discusses packaging waste policy, extended producer responsibility, and recent greenwashing cases involving major brands like Nike, Superdry, and Lacoste.

This episode marks the 10-year anniversary of Conservation International's Sustainable Coffee Challenge, discussing its origins after the Paris Agreement and progress in making coffee the world's first sustainable agricultural product.