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Regular podcasts on sustainable business issues from Innovation Forum.
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- 22
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- Sep 8, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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Weekly podcast – Can apparel brands ever understand supplier challenges? (opens the original)
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This week: Pakistan-based denim garments manufacturer Soorty Enterprises’ head of ESG, Mobeen Chughtai, talks with Niamh Campbell, Innovation Forum's head of portfolio, apparel and textiles, about some of the challenges facing sector factories and suppliers that buyers at brands need to know about. They talk about digital product passports, development of renewably powered factories and what productive relationships can look like. Plus: Amazon deforestation slows, again; New Zealand’s modern sla
58% aligned: what happens when a brand audits its own circularity claims (opens the original)
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Julia Kirschner, impact and innovation director at ArmedAngels talks with Innovation Forum's Niamh Campbell about where circularity actually begins: with brands' design decisions, not raw materials. They discuss how ArmedAngels audited its 2026 collection and found 58% alignment with its own circular design principles.
Weekly podcast – Why supply chain shocks no longer have a recovery period (opens the original)
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This week: Charlotte Bande, managing director and global food and beverage sector lead at Quantis, talks with Ian Welsh about the mounting pressure on food supply chains from compounding climate shocks. They discuss why low-volume commodities like vanilla can carry outsized business risk, and why procurement teams still resist change when full traceability isn't in place. And, new study finds little measurable forest benefit from corporate zero-deforestation pledges; a Vietnamese cocoa processor
The QR code is the easy part: what digital product passports really demand (opens the original)
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Pauline God, industry and policy expert at TrusTrace, talks with Ian Welsh about the state of play on digital product passports in apparel. They discuss the gap between mandatory infrastructure and still-voluntary product obligations and the four biggest lessons from DPP pilots running since 2021. They also talk about why choosing item-level serialisation over batch-level data determines whether a brand can support resale, repair and other circular business models later.
Weekly podcast – Recycling is working better than you think (opens the original)
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This week: Cory Connors, host of the Sustainable Packaging Podcast presented by Atlantic Packaging, and Matt Saunders, managing partner at New Earth Ventures, talk with Ian Welsh about where sustainable packaging is actually heading. They discuss the shift to monomaterials and paper-based formats under EPR and PPWR pressure, and how AI is starting to reshape packaging design, procurement and testing. Plus: West Africa's cocoa sector struggles to meet incoming EU deforestation rules; scientists a
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