De Beers Group announces 2030 goals

A few days ago, De Beers Group announced 12 sustainable development goals for the next ten years, including achieving gender equality within the group, supporting 10,000 female entrepreneurs in diamond-producing cooperative countries, and achieving group operations by 2030 Carbon neutral.

The twelve goals include four cores: leading the industry's ethical practices, cooperating to rejuvenate communities, protecting nature, and accelerating the realization of equal opportunities. They are part of the De Beers Group's "Eternal Creation" framework. This framework is an important sustainable development policy of the group's business strategy, and is committed to maximizing the positive impact of diamonds from the source of mining to the final sale. These goals are designed to inspire De Beers Group employees, partners and consumers around the world.

1. Leading the industry's ethical practice

By 2030, the De Beers Group will further expand the group’s “best practice principles” and break the limitations of the value chain, thereby raising industry standards; providing information about each diamond mined and sold by the group; and improving the lives of traditional miners Conditions provide flexible solutions.

2. Cooperation to revitalize the community

De Beers Group will give priority to achieving the health goals of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Ensure a healthy life and promote the well-being of people of all ages) in all the cooperative communities of the Group; establish technical partnerships in all cooperative communities of the Group; One job provides support for four jobs in the group’s partner countries/regions at the same time.

3. Protect nature

De Beers Group will achieve carbon neutrality in all operations of the group; halve the water footprint (referring to the invisible water consumed in the process of public consumption of products and services in daily life); achieve a purely positive effect on biodiversity influences.

4. Accelerate the achievement of equality of opportunity

De Beers Group will achieve equal job opportunities throughout the group, including gender equality; provide support to 10,000 female entrepreneurs, and recruit 10,000 female employees in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields; increase diamonds Diversity of creative talents in the jewelry industry.

Bruce Cleaver, CEO of De Beers Group, mentioned: “As the world’s leading diamond company, it also responds to the United Nations’ “Decade of Action” initiative to achieve the “Sustainable Development Goals”. The people and society at the origin of diamonds create sustainable benefits. We take the sustainable framework of “Creation and Eternity” as the core of our business strategy and set these 12 ambitious goals."

Bruce Cleaver, CEO of De Beers Group

Katie Fergusson, Senior Vice President of Sustainable Impact of De Beers Group, added: “In recent years, we have made significant progress in positively impacting the diamond industry and local cooperative communities. There is still room for improvement. From today to 2030, we will continue to advance on the road of innovation and self-challenge, and strive to achieve these ambitious goals."