This week: Isabella Tonaco, vice-president for strategy execution and marketing, renewable polymers and chemicals at Neste, and Mezbah Sabur, founder of Circularise, talk with Innovation Forum's Toby Webb about the two companies’ partnership to establish digital solutions for a transparent and traceable chemistry value chain. They discuss how blockchain transparency can counter challenges in mass balance monitoring and share what sustainable chemistry at scale might look like.
Plus: insight from Patrick Houdry at Airbus, Eloisa Menguzzo from Dutch pension sector non-profit PGGM and Innovation Forum senior associate Peter Stanbury, speaking with Ian Welsh at Innovation Forum's recent sustainable landscapes and commodities conference in Amsterdam.
And: Lula da Silva's strong commitments to end Amazon deforestation at COP27; apparel brands pledged for low-carbon alternative fibres in initiative from Canopy; corporate net zero targets will require doubling of current pace of change, says Accenture; and, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Changing Markets Foundation report highlights the scale of meat and dairy farming emissions, in the news digest.
Host: Ian Welsh
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Monday briefing – From field to future: engaging smallholder farmers to deliver sustainable food systems
Weekly podcast — The circular future for plastic and packaging
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Uniting farmers, ranchers and stakeholders across the agricultural value chain
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Weekly briefing – On the road to sustainable, resilient, regenerative food systems
Weekly podcast – How business can benefit from engaging in landscape approaches
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Ensuring quality food and business: how to navigate incoming legislation
Monday briefing – Sustainable food for thought: next steps towards regenerative transition
Weekly podcast – Brazil's soy sector amid climate transitions, and US farmer voices
What certification can do for apparel brands and consumers
Financial risks and opportunities in the age of global climate action: a Brazilian agribusiness case study
Monday briefing – human rights and fast fashion risks in the apparel sector
Weekly podcast – Reality check: food sector regulation and the regen agri transition
Trend watch: what the apparel sector needs to know
Securing sustainable crop nutrition: the role of fertilizers in regenerative agriculture
Weekly podcast – How to move from carbon to nature-based disclosure
Building resilience through regenerative cotton in India
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