{
  "id": 13870359,
  "title": "De Beers Group publishes 2025 sustainability performance report",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/de-beers-group-publishes-2025-sustainability-performance-report",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-12T04:13:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Vietnam Investment Review",
    "slug": "vietnam-investment-review",
    "url": "https://vir.com.vn/de-beers-group-publishes-2025-sustainability-performance-report-162667.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "De Beers Group released its 2025 Sustainability Report, showcasing notable advancements in its Building Forever framework. The report highlights progress in livelihoods, nature conservation, climate action, and diamond provenance.\n\nKey accomplishments in 2025 include reducing Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions by 14% since 2021, aligning with De Beers' science-based target to cut its carbon footprint by one third by 2030. The company supports 2.6 jobs offsite for every onsite job created and manages 375,000 acres of land for conservation in Southern Africa. Notably, De Beers facilitated the designation of Angola's first Ramsar Wetland, safeguarding 95% of the water flowing into the Okavango Delta.\n\nThe firm achieved zero work-related fatalities in 2025, marking the safest year in its history, and passed the milestone of scanning five million rough diamonds on Tracr to enhance transparency and traceability. EntreprenHER, a program supporting women's training with UN Women and government partners, has now trained over 3,900 women since 2016.\n\nDe Beers pledged to invest $70 million in the Diamonds for Development Fund in Botswana, aiding the nation's long-term economic diversification. CEO Al Cook emphasized that diamonds can support jobs, skills development, nature conservation, and climate action in diamond-producing countries. Sandrine Conseiller, CEO of De Beers Brands, highlighted the company's commitment to real, impactful change through its sustainability efforts, aiming to secure three times more land for nature than it currently impacts and fund partnerships to safeguard an additional 13 million acres by 2030.",
  "summary": "Diamond producer De Beers Group released its 2025 Sustainability Report detailing environmental conservation targets carbon reduction milestones and ethical diamond origin tracking across global operations",
  "key_points": [
    "De Beers reduced Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions by 14% since 2021.",
    "Company supports 2.6 offsite jobs for every onsite job created.",
    "De Beers achieved zero work-related fatalities in 2025."
  ],
  "editors_take": "Scaling technological traceability and conservation investments signals a shift toward integrating environmental stewardship and social stability directly into the core value proposition of the diamond supply chain.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}