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Brandee Dallow (pictured), a highly regarded industry executive who has worked for the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC), De Beers, and Rio Tinto, is joining SCS Global Services as vice president of sustainability for luxury goods, JCK can report....

(PRESS RELEASE) SCS Global Services (SCS), a pioneer and leader in the field of sustainability standards and third-party certification, issued its first “Certificate of Accreditation for Gem Identification Verification Provider to GCAL (Gem Certification & Assurance Lab). This technical accreditation was issued in part based on GCAL being the only gem lab in the world to be ISO 17025 Forensic Accredited, as well as the knowledge of its technical experts. In its Gem Identification Laboratory Accreditation Report, SCS confirmed that “GCAL’s New York City Laboratory meets the accreditation criteria as a Gem Identification Facility required for Origin Traceability Assurance under the SCS-007 Jewelry Sustainability Standard – Sustainability Rated Diamonds for qualifying accredited sources of certified diamonds. ...

Pandora has hired model Ashley Graham as a spokesperson for its new lab-grown diamond brand as it goes “all in” behind the product line, company CEO Alexander Lacik told Bloomberg Quint. Lacik pledged to put unprecedented “muscle” behind the new fashion line, called Pandora Brilliance. And he hinted that while the product is currently being tested in the United Kingdom, it may soon be offered worldwide....

The Company's third-party sustainability certification is a groundbreaking accomplishment, granted through SCS Global Services' Jewelry Sustainability Standard ("SCS 007"). The Standard was developed by an international multi-stakeholder committee and represents the world's most stringent benchmark of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) accountability for the diamond industry. Disrupting long-held concerns regarding the ability to accurately trace a diamond's true origin, the Standard's empirical Chain of Custody provisions guarantee provenance with 99% accuracy. Latitude's first-of-its-kind certification represents a major turning-point in diamond traceability....

The International Gemological Institute’s New York City office has committed to being carbon-neutral by 2022....

SCS Global Services will evaluate the group’s greenhouse gas emissions, in turn creating a plan to mitigate the institute’s environmental impact...

The industry continues to weigh in and pick sides since the somewhat controversial launch of Pandora’s Brilliance collection, the company’s first using laboratory-grown diamonds....