De Beers Launches 2030 Goals: 12 KPI's, 4 Pillars & 10 Years To Achieve Them

Mining company De Beers has launched an ambitious vision to reach 12 milestone KPI's, three in each of four key area's - Thriving Communities, Ethical Practices, Protecting Nature and Equal Opportunities, to be achieved by 2030.

By 2030 De Beers wants to

•     Extend its Best Practice Principles (a set of leading ethical, social and environmental standards) beyond its value chain to advance industry standards
•     Provide the origin and impact of every diamond it discovers and sells
•     Deliver scalable solutions to improve the livelihoods of artisanal miners

•     Achieve priority UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) health targets in all its partner communities
•     Establish skills partnerships in all its partner communities
•     Have supported four jobs across its partner countries for every one job at its operations

•     Be carbon neutral across its operations
•     Reduce its water footprint by 50%
•     Achieve a net positive impact on biodiversity

•     Achieve equal opportunity, including gender parity, for employees across its workforce
•     Support 10,000 women entrepreneurs and engage 10,000 girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects
•     Increase the diversity of creative talent in the diamond jewellery sector