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: London Climate Action Week raises ambition in its fifth year
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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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Weekly podcast – What does the future of food look like?
The power of recycled plastics and packaging
Monday briefing: World Environment Day collaboration to tackle plastic pollution
Weekly podcast – Regenerative farming: building resilience in modern agriculture
The key to a truly responsible palm oil sourcing supply chain
Weekly podcast – Unlocking circularity: the use of technology in apparel supply chains
Webinar – Resilient agriculture: value-chain collaboration for a climate-smart food system
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Monday briefing: from COP15 and COP27 commitments to action
Weekly podcast – Collaboration to drive progress in recycled products and packaging
The growing potential of agroforestry for coffee supply chains
Webinar – The future of meat debate: what are the best options for human and planetary health?
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