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
Why palm oil success will mean not having to talk about deforestation
Why plastic use should be lessened not demonised
Weekly podcast: Real-time monitoring of palm oil deforestation risks
Why sustainability belongs at the centre of company operations
Partnerships and incentives for more sustainable palm oil
Weekly podcast: Palm oil traceability and farmer livelihoods, and some reasons to be positive about 2020
Defining a landscape approach and why it’s so important
The importance of ‘active listening’ for business planning
Innovation, technology and industry 4.0: a Mexican case study
Weekly podcast: Business sustainability – why small changes can have big impact
Accountability Framework initiative: developing corporate deforestation and commodity commitments
Webinar – Can audits work to tackle human rights violations?
Weekly podcast: Can business help balance smallholder farm conservation and livelihoods?
Why Bangladesh’s garment factories must continue to be more innovative
Why corporate targets are no longer just fingers in the wind
Weekly podcast: How can certification be effective in the plastics debate?
How to scale a landscape approach for sustainable commodities
How to implement a landscape approach
Is the smallholder farm business model viable?
How to tackle deforestation through communities and smallholders
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