De Beers Group Reports Progress on Building Forever Goals

De Beers Group has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, highlighting progress across its Building Forever sustainability framework. The report covers livelihoods, nature conservation, climate action and diamond provenance.

The report outlines several achievements from 2025. These include a reduction in carbon emissions, expanded conservation efforts, employment support, improved diamond traceability and initiatives focused on economic development.

Progress Across Sustainability Goals

De Beers Group reduced its Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions by 14% since 2021. This supports its science-based target to reduce its carbon footprint by one third by 2030.

The Group also supported 2.6 offsite jobs for every onsite job in 2025. It aims to increase this to four offsite jobs for every onsite role by 2030.

In Southern Africa, De Beers manages 375,000 acres of land for conservation. It also continued to invest in nature-positive initiatives and biodiversity conservation.

The Group supported the designation of Angola’s first Ramsar Wetland through the Okavango Eternal partnership with National Geographic. The initiative helps protect the source of 95% of the water flowing into the Okavango Delta.

Nature Conservation in Southern Africa

De Beers has managed nature reserves in Southern Africa for more than 130 years. Its sites also operate biodiversity management programmes designed to avoid, reduce or restore impacts on nature.

The Group currently manages 375,000 acres for conservation. It is also exploring scalable models that can support positive outcomes for nature.

Through the Okavango Eternal partnership, the designation of Angola’s first Ramsar Wetland marked a significant milestone. The protected area supports the source of 95% of the water flowing into the Okavango Delta.

De Beers and Debswana also marked the birth of the 70th rhino calf on their Botswana nature reserves since conservation efforts began in 2012. In addition, the Group successfully translocated 31 rhinos to support wider regional rewilding.

Looking ahead, De Beers aims to secure three times more land for nature than it impacts. It also plans to support partnerships that aim to safeguard a further 13 million acres by 2030.

Climate Action and Renewable Energy

De Beers is working to reduce the climate impact of its operations while supporting the wider energy transition.

The Group’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions have fallen by 14% since 2021. This puts the company on a path towards its SBTi-approved target of reducing its carbon footprint by one third by 2030.

De Beers also supports Envusa, which is bringing 520MW of renewable energy from solar and wind sources to Southern Africa.

Other initiatives include trials involving drop-in biofuels and tyre circularity projects with Anglo American and Sasol. The Group also supports Kelp Blue, which grows Giant Kelp off Namibia’s coast.

For the next phase, De Beers plans to accelerate reductions across Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Priorities include expanding renewable energy, electrifying mining equipment and working with suppliers to address Scope 3 emissions.

Supporting Livelihoods and Economic Development

De Beers continues to position livelihoods and economic development as key elements of its sustainability strategy.

The Stanford Seed programme has supported 128 businesses since its launch. The programme provides leadership training, management coaching and networking tools to SMEs in De Beers’ Southern African diamond-producing partner countries.

The EntreprenHER programme, delivered with UN Women, trained another 500 women in 2025. This brought the total number of women trained through the programme since 2016 to 3,900.

De Beers also supported 2.6 offsite jobs for every onsite role created during 2025.

In Botswana, the Group committed an initial BWP1 billion, approximately US$70 million, to the Diamonds for Development Fund. The initiative aims to support the country’s emerging knowledge-based economy and accelerate long-term economic diversification.

Other programmes include Stanford Seed, EntreprenHER and the Diamond Entrepreneurship Programme, which supports local SMEs in areas such as cutting, polishing, jewellery design and trading.

Strengthening Diamond Provenance

De Beers also continued to strengthen diamond traceability and industry standards during 2025.

The Group marked the 20th year of its Best Practice Principles programme. The programme covers around 250,000 people across more than 70 countries and undergoes third-party audits.

De Beers also reported that 100% of its precious metal suppliers met its sourcing standards for gold, platinum and silver supplied to its De Beers London and Forevermark retail brands.

Meanwhile, Tracr passed five million individually registered rough diamonds on its blockchain-backed traceability platform.

Tracr also partnered with Sarine to combine rough diamond source registration with advanced scanning data. The collaboration aims to create an end-to-end and cost-effective traceability solution.

The platform also supported the De Beers London capsule collection featuring GemFair diamonds developed in 2025. This demonstrated the use of the platform to support provenance and traceability for artisanally mined diamonds.

De Beers plans to expand Tracr’s reach further. Future efforts include onboarding additional production sources and midstream participants.

De Beers on Building Forever

Al Cook, Chief Executive Officer of De Beers Group, said: “At De Beers, we believe natural diamonds can do more than sparkle. Through the natural diamond value chain, they can support jobs, skills development, nature conservation and climate action in diamond-producing countries. During 2025, De Beers Group sharpened its focus on a set of ambitious sustainability targets where the business can make the greatest difference, aligned with partner country priorities, global standards and UN Sustainable Development Goals. We are proud of the progress we are making to ensure every diamond we recover creates lasting impact for people, communities and the environment, but we also understand that this requires sharp focus, deliberate action and constant monitoring. As the pace of change around us increases, and as the risks and opportunities ahead of us become clearer, so must our commitment to progress grow.”

Sandrine Conseiller, CEO, De Beers Brands, added, “We’re pleased to share our 2025 sustainability achievements, demonstrating that our ambitions can lead to real, impactful change. Consumers increasingly expect the brands they choose to consider their wider impact, not as something exceptional, but as a matter of course. This report is about showing what De Beers’ sustainability commitments mean in practice, sharing openly the actions we are taking and the impact we are having, so customers can choose natural diamonds with confidence, knowing the value they create reaches far beyond the diamond itself.”

The full De Beers Group 2025 Sustainability Report is available through the company’s sustainability reporting platform.