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
Weekly podcast – Regenerative agriculture’s growing potential
Cracking the carbon code: why saving forests is a good investment
Monday briefing: Earth Overshoot Day continuously creeps up the calendar
Weekly podcast – Unlocking digital traceability in apparel supply chains and beyond
Weekly podcast – How regenerative practices can shape the future of US cotton
Building nature positive agrifood systems
Farmer voices: deforestation solutions for smallholders
How remote sensing is fuelling nature-positive approaches
Monday briefing – UN HLPF renews focus on Covid-19 recovery
Weekly podcast – Nature-positive agriculture: a how-to guide
How agrifood stakeholders can support European farmers in the regenerative transition
The key to food sector resilience across the value chain
Monday briefing: How climate change impacts the right to food
Weekly podcast – How to spot a good carbon project
What does the route to a sustainable food and beverage sector look like?
Monday briefing: London Climate Action Week raises ambition in its fifth year
Weekly podcast – Remote sensing: The data that gets to grips with carbon impacts
The potential for regenerative cotton in Brazil
Monday briefing: Collaboration to drive progress on sustainable apparel and textiles
Weekly podcast – Cross-value-chain collaboration for food sector resilience
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