Weekly podcast: The corporate challenges in tackling climate change at pace

<p>This week: Myles McCarthy, director for implementation and e-mobility at the Carbon Trust, talks about the big climate challenges for business in the run-up to COP26. He argues that while there are some big step-change targets being set across industries, the challenge now is in making the progress necessary at scale and pace, and developing the technology and models that will be required.</p> <p>And, Toby Webb and Peter Stanbury discuss the next steps in Innovation Forum’s action research project into smallholder farmer resilience.</p> <p>Plus: implications of IPCC’s latest report; New York pension fund reviewing fossil fuel assets; Lidl UK to be carbon neutral by 2022; Barry Callebout, Nestlé and Proforest develop sustainable coconut supply chain scorecard; and, new apparel transparency pilot involving Next, New Look and H+M Group, in the news digest.</p> <p>Host: Ian Welsh</p> <p>For an extended conversation between Toby Webb and Peter Stanbury on Innovation Forum’s smallholder resilience research, <a href='https://www.innovationforum.co.uk/articles/asking-the-unasked-questions-about-smallholder-farmer-supply-chains'>click here</a>. </p>