This week: Gerard Barron, CEO of deep sea mining exploration company The Metals Company, speaks with Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh on the challenges and environmental impacts of traditional extraction methods and what the future demand for critical metals and minerals is going to look like. They discuss the latest innovation in extracting vital resources from the sea floor with significantly less harmful impacts.
Plus: the Science Based Targets initiative updates progress on its Business Ambition for 1.5C programme; World Trade Organization finds fault in EU's move against palm oil biofuel; and, EU's corporate sustainability due diligence directive in revision with a greater focus on smaller suppliers' compliance, in the news digest.
Host: Ian Welsh
Human rights in the forest: How REDD+ projects strengthen human rights in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and local communities
How climate change is impacting women farmers
Delivering long-term farm resilience through agroforestry
Monday briefing: a reality check on Paris progress
Weekly podcast – A coffee conundrum: the impact of EUDR
How Cargill future-proofs food systems for good
Monday briefing: doubling down on climate finance at the World Investment Forum
Weekly podcast – Compliance, collaboration and chemical recycling: the future of plastics and packaging
How to measure and track corporate emissions data
Transformation, traceability and transparency: from intention to action
Monday briefing: carbon credit trading on Tokyo Stock Exchange
Is our food undervalued?
Tackling deforestation with carbon markets in Cambodia
Monday briefing: England’s single-use plastics ban explained
Weekly podcast – Delivering future food supply security: a how-to guide
Going the whole hog? Sustainability in the US pork sector
Driving change in fashion: circularity, design innovation and regulation
Weekly briefing: Managing food waste across the supply chain
Weekly podcast – Farmer voice: how brands and buyers can help smallholders and secure supply
Dyeing for change: decarbonising the textiles supply chain
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