Second pre-CIBJO Special Report released
Provides guidance on how ESG compliance be achieved! With fewer than 10 weeks to go to the opening of the 2024 CIBJO Congress in Shanghai, China, on November 2, 2024, the second of the pre-congress Special Reports has been released. Prepared by the CIBJO Sustainable Development Commission, headed by John Mulligan, it examines ways in which jewellery companies can meet the growing demand to become compliant with responsible environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles. If the jewellery industry as a whole is to build and sustain consumer trust, it needs to avoid fragmented and potentially contradictory responses, writes Mulligan. “How then do we strive to encourage and support the global jewellery sector so that it might move in a relatively consistent or broadly convergent manner towards a set of common sustainability objectives?” he asks. The CIBJO Sustainable Development Commission has been developing solutions, Mulligan reveals in the report, seeking to define a secto