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The First Certified Climate Neutral and Sustainability Rated Diamond Arrives with Latitude, a Revolutionary New Brand

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....

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Gem Lab IGI Pledges to Become Carbon-Neutral

The New York office of the International Gemological Institute (IGI) is aiming to be the first carbon-neutral gemological laboratory by 2022. IGI will work with third-party certifier and standards developer SCS Global Services to complete an audit of the New York lab’s carbon emissions over the past year. It will use that to create a strategy and timeline for achieving carbon-neutral certification....

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