Podcasts

Climate Commitments

How Credible Sustainability Systems Strengthen Climate Commitments

How can businesses meet growing demands for credible climate action? As COP30 nears, this article explores how robust sustainability systems—like those championed by ISEAL—are helping companies navigate Scope 3 emissions, build trust, and drive just transitions. Learn how standards, traceability, and inclusive frameworks are shaping a resilient and transparent global climate response.
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people-centred climate action

Putting People First in Climate Action: How Fair Finance is Building Resilience Across East Africa

As climate change intensifies, Shared Interest supports farmers in East Africa with fair finance and training to build local resilience. From vegetable producers in Rwanda to coffee growers in Uganda, the focus is on community-led adaptation and climate-smart farming. Putting people at the centre of climate action is key to sustainable, inclusive progress.
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Women and Climate Supply Chains

Investing in Women-Led Organisations to Fight Climate Impacts in Global Supply Chain Communities 

The human toll of climate impacts presents specific challenges for women workers and their communities, especially in climate-vulnerable countries. Climate action and investments must not only focus on mitigation but also address the unique impacts on women and the connection between workplace and community across issues like women’s health, violence, migration, forced labor, among others. 
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Agroecology and food systems

Agroecology: The Pathway to Sustainable Food Systems

Agroecology is a powerful pathway to climate-resilient, sustainable food systems. Brenda Huerta of Fairtrade International explores how soil health, biodiversity, and farmer agency are interconnected, highlighting successful examples from banana cooperatives in Latin America. As COP30 approaches, she calls for bold investment in agroecology as a foundation for social justice, environmental regeneration, and resilient livelihoods.
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Presentation of The Power of Procurement

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Investing in Resilience Corridors: Putting People at the Center of Climate and Stability

How can we unlock climate finance for the world’s most fragile regions? Nuru is showing the way with a model that supports professional cooperatives to lead nature-based solutions. Backed by blended finance and delivering over 80% of carbon revenues to local communities, Nuru’s “resilience corridors” offer a blueprint for stability, sustainability, and shared prosperity.
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Human Rights and Business

Help Shape the UK’s Approach to Business and Human Rights: Take Part in the National Baseline Assessment

The UK Government invites Business Fights Poverty members to contribute to a National Baseline Assessment of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Led by Nottingham Rights Lab, the survey and consultation explore government and business efforts to protect and respect human rights. Responses are welcome until 14 November 2025.
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Join the Business Fights Poverty Climate Series 2025: Putting People at the Centre of Climate Action

Business Fights Poverty’s 2025 Climate Series spotlights how businesses can drive climate action while prioritising people. Join global leaders exploring how to deliver just transitions, invest in resilience, and ensure no one is left behind. Through insights, case studies, and live events, the series supports practical, people-centred climate solutions across industries and geographies.
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Building Prosperity from the Ground Up: Helping Farmers Thrive

This article explores how smallholder cotton farmers can build long-term prosperity through traceability, climate resilience, and inclusive supply chains. Highlighting CottonConnect’s approach—from regenerative farming to digital tools—it makes the case that empowering farmers is essential to global sustainability. When farmers thrive, businesses prosper—and prosperity becomes a shared outcome.
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Åsa Skogström Feldt

How IKEA Is Powering Global Social Entrepreneurship with Åsa Skogström Feldt

Åsa Skogström Feldt, MD, IKEA Social Entrepreneurship shares how business can be a force for good & why they accelerate social enterprises.
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Young Leaders Driving Environmental Change Win The Iris Prize 2025

The Iris Prize 2025 celebrates young environmental leaders driving change in Mongolia, Mexico, and the Philippines. With £718,000 in support since 2022, the award funds youth-led projects tackling air pollution, river restoration, and marine conservation. The initiative highlights the urgent need to back youth innovation for a sustainable future.
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Views from the Global Goals Summit on Business Fights Poverty’s New Report: Making the Five Bridges to 2045 a Reality

At this year’s Business Fights Poverty Global Goals Summit, a number of sessions turned their attention to the launch of our new Five Bridges to 2045: How Business Can Build a Fairer, More Resilient Future. Eighteen experts from our global network took part in online sessions and an in-person event hosted with Barclays in New York, where representatives from Ikea, Natura, Vodafone Foundation, ABF Sugar and Fundación Paraguaya shared their perspectives on how to bring the report’s vision of embedding social impact and sustainability into core business closer to reality.
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Climate Series 2025 – Your Window Into COP30.

As world leaders gathered for the COP30 Climate Summit in Belém, Brazil, Business Fights Poverty and Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) explored how businesses can put people
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Amrit Dhaliwal - a values-driven leader.

Social Impact Entrepreneurship & Leading with Purpose – Amrit Dhaliwal

Social Impact Pioneer, social entrepreneur, home care leader and purposeful leader – Amrit Dhaliwal shares how to be a values-driven leader.
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Collaborative Climate Action

Collaborative Climate Action Starts with Workers

Climate change is already harming garment workers—especially women—through extreme heat, flooding, illness, lost wages, and increased violence. RISE’s new research reveals how climate risks cascade through workers’ lives and offers actionable steps for brands and manufacturers. The call is clear: climate action in the garment sector must start with listening to workers.
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CSR 2.0

CSR 2.0: Commercial Social Revolution?

As globalisation widened the gap between corporations and communities, CSR often became marketing gloss. “CSR 2.0” calls for a systemic approach that embeds social impact into commercial strategy—aligning profit with purpose. By addressing beyond-the-firm constraints and fostering inclusive growth, businesses can turn responsibility into resilience, competitiveness, and genuine poverty reduction.
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What Happens When Women Entrepreneurs Are Left Out of Business Growth Strategies?

Accelerators are touted as engines of SME growth. Yet most target established businesses, leaving low-income women behind. Hand in Hand’s grassroots accelerator proves their potential: over 8,000 women have scaled businesses, boosting incomes, creating jobs, and lifting families well beyond the poverty line. Amalia Johnsson, Hand in Hand International CEO, explains why inclusive growth demands we accelerate women too.
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The power of Kindness

Kindness isn’t a weakness; it’s a strength. Today, we need the courage to build bridges, not walls. And I believe the same is true
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The Power of Participatory Radio with Hannah and Meshack

The Power of Participatory Radio with Hannah and Meshack

Listen to this podcast conversation to learn about The Power of Participatory Radio. Social Impact Pioneers – Meshack Kitungu Kawinzi and Hannah Davis share how one of the world’s oldest and most trusted communication tools, radio, is being harnessed to change lives and strengthen communities.
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How Can Companies Turn Sustainability into Jobs, Livelihoods and Lasting Business Value?

How Can Companies Turn Sustainability into Jobs, Livelihoods and Lasting Business Value? Hosted with Novonesis This Insights Paper explores how companies can translate sustainability
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