De Beers sets goal to become carbon-neutral by 2030

Diamond miner De Beers on November 30 launched its 12 Building Forever goals, which focus on ethical practices across the diamond industry, partnering to boost communities, putting in place structures to protect the natural world and accelerating equal opportunity.

The 12 “ambitious” sustainability goals for the decade to 2030 include achieving gender parity throughout De Beers’ workforce, supporting 10 000 women entrepreneurs in its diamond producing partner countries and being carbon neutral within its own operations by 2030, the miner states.

The 12 goals are part of De Beers’ Building Forever framework – a sustainability approach embedded in the business’s commercial strategy and focused on enhancing the positive impact of diamonds on their journey from discovery to retail.