How Can the Jewellery Industry Engage with Sustainable Development Goals? | Inside Fashion

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Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

BoF hosted a panel discussion In partnership with Chopard on how the jewellery industry can engage with the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals — with Cherie Blair, the UN’s Lena Wendelen and Phillipe Fornier, general secretary of the Swiss Better Gold Association.

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0:00.0	With a changing funding environment around NGOs and with shifting power in the world towards businesses,
0:09.0	it would be very hard to understand how the sustainable development goals could be achieved without close cooperation with business.
0:16.0	We cannot have any children going to work in mining, and that's something that all the companies worldwide
0:22.6	has to prioritize these children need to go to school. They need to have access to health.
0:28.6	They need to be dreaming of becoming a doctor or working in jewelry.
0:33.6	How can we make sure that the things we're looking at here are not just beautiful to look at,
0:39.4	but are beautiful at source.
0:41.8	Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to the B.OF
0:47.4	podcast.
0:48.4	This week, we have a very special episode in store for you.
0:52.2	We're headed to the Basel World Watch Fair in Basel, Switzerland.
0:56.3	Each year, movers and shakers from the watches and jewelry industry gather in Basel to do the
1:01.5	business of watches and jewelry. In fact, one company executive told me that 30% of their entire
1:07.8	annual business happens in this one week in Basel.
1:11.6	But this year, amidst all of this wheeling and dealing, we held a special conversation about the future of sustainable jewelry.
1:18.6	It was the first time that the Basel World Watch Fair has had this kind of conversation,
1:23.6	and we were pleased to speak to a series of experts to understand how our industry and that of watches and jewelry can move towards more sustainability, thinking along the lines of the United Nations 17 sustainable development goals.
1:37.9	This week's BOF podcast is brought to you in partnership with Schaupard, one of the leaders in this important space.
1:46.0	Today we have a very important topic to discuss and as Livia mentioned earlier,
1:54.0	sustainability has been a topic of great interest to those of us, our team at the business of fashion. And over the years, we've explored these issues from a variety of angles.
2:05.3	And what I found so compelling about today's invitation is that we had never really had
2:10.7	a discussion around sustainability as it pertains to the jewelry and watches sector.
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