Carbon Footprint Considerations for Jewelers

Friday, May 17th, noon ET/9am PT

This Living Room Session will highlight the most significant considerations and actions independent jewelers can take to better understand their own carbon footprint and how to reduce it.

The reports seem to get worse - the climate crisis is real, and communities in the Global South, where the majority of jewelry materials come from, bear the brunt of the impact. While large corporations are responsible for the vast majority of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, our participation and in many cases reliance on systems that are still fossil fuel dependent means that exploring solutions and new systems is our responsibility too. Working to reduce GHG emissions while building up the resilience of communities facing climate impacts along our value chains is something that we can do.

How will we reduce GHG emissions collectively while supporting communities?

During this session we’ll learn from David Jaber… His focus is on reducing GHG emissions and he’s prepared a session for you!  

Small businesses and independent jewelers often face unique challenges in calculating their carbon footprint. These unique challenges might include shared and rented studio spaces, a lack of resources to take on carbon accounting tasks, a reliance on outsourcing parts of the manufacturing process, and sourcing from overseas suppliers. Additionally, there are challenges the whole jewelry industry shares, such as a lack of specific and comparable data sets on the carbon footprint of gold and silver extraction and processing.

Together we’ll aim to better understand the challenges and possible approaches to GHG reduction. Supporting jewelry community resilience will be a conversation for another day.

David is owner and founder of Climate Positive Consulting, a certified B Corp that advises businesses in carbon footprint analysis, climate strategy development, and GHG emission reduction in line with science-based targets and net zero goals. David is a business consultant of 20+ years, a Project Drawdown Fellow and the author of Climate Positive Business: How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero. He has worked with over 200 companies to improve environmental performance and advance better decision-making.

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