The global jewellery industry is, by all measures, vast. Its current value is estimated to sit around £280 billion and is projected to grow to around £430 billion over the next decade. And yet, when you’re looking at a piece in store, what glitters may well be gold, but the standards around how it’s landed there aren’t guaranteed to be.

Indeed, jewellery's sustainability discourse couldn't be more crucial than it is right now. With the nature of the industry's supply chains – which, at root, are largely reliant on the energy-intensive extraction of raw mineral resources from the earth, a practice with a notoriously negative collateral impact on local ecosystems and communities – and serious issues around the near-impossibility of accurate traceability, jewellery businesses are facing up

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