Pre-CIBJO Congress 2025 special report 2 released
Considers unified sustainability agenda for jewellery industry With fewer than nine weeks to go to the opening of the 2025 CIBJO Congress in Paris, France, on October 27, 2025, the second of the pre-congress Special Reports has been released. Prepared by the CIBJO Sustainable Development Commission, headed by John Mulligan, it considers both challenges and solutions for devising a unified sustainability agenda for the jewellery industry and its supply chains, which are very diverse in terms of their geography, product categories and the capacities of companies working within them. “As the global jewellery industry grapples with the complex challenges of responsible sourcing, environmental stewardship, stalled socio-economic development, and inequalities of opportunity, the need for a broadly agreed, collaborative approach to sustainability has never been more urgent,” writes Mulligan. “Fragmentation across geographies, supply chains, and business models has l...