From the left:
Giorgio Bodei, Director of Pomellato
Moya McKeown, of Carbon Expert - CIBJO’s Greenhouse Gas Measurement Initiative
Gaetano Cavalieri, President of CIBJO
Iris Van der Veken, Executive Director of the Responsible Jewellery Council
Philip Olden, President of CIBJO‘s Responsible Sourcing Committee
Marco Carniello, Group Brand Director Jewellery & Fashion of Italian Exhibition Group
Gabriele Aprea, President of Club degli Orafi
Steven Tranquilli, Director of Federpreziosi
The Panel, moderated by Philip Olden, President of CIBJO’s Responsible Sourcing Commission, saw
interventions from some of the most important voices in the sector: from Giorgio Bodei, Manager of
Pomellato, to Steven Tranquilli, Director of Federpreziosi.
This morning at 11 o’clock in Tiziana.b Room – Hall 7.1, the seminar
entitled “Is size important?”, organized by CIBJO – the World Jewellery Confederation, took place. The event
is one of the most popular at Vicenzaoro January, the international gold and jewellery show of reference,
organized by Italian Exhibition Group (IEG), which opens the sector’s international calendar and will sparkle
at the Vicenza Expo Centre until 22nd January 2020.
With the support of the main Italian associations, including Federpreziosi and Club degli Orafi, the workshop
organized by CIBJO dealt with the topics of responsible sourcing and sustainability, with an eye on small and
medium-sized enterprises which make up the largest part of the jewellery sector on a global scale and play a
leading role in Italy’s economic fabric.
How are the new standards in terms of due diligence to be faced? What is the key to a prosperous business
without forgetting the United Nations’ sustainable development objectives? These were just two of the
questions put to the panel, which featured some of the most authoritative voices in the gold-jewellery world,
including Steven Tranquilli, Director of Federpreziosi, who gave the opening greetings, Gabriele Aprea,
President of Club degli Orafi, Marco Carniello, Manager of IEG and Gaetano Cavalieri, President of CIBJO.
Philip Olden, President of CIBJO’s Responsible Sourcing Commission and panel moderator, outlined the
implementation stages in CIBJO’s Responsible Sourcing Policy, the responsible supply policy launched by the
Confederation in 2018. Olden’s intervention was followed by another from Iris Van der Veken from the
Responsible Jewellery Council, who underlined the importance of a responsible production chain, suggesting
strategies able to create virtuous synergies between environmental and manufacturing sustainability.
Moya McKeown from Carbon Expert presented the Jewellery Industry Measurement Initiative, a project
that aims to make sector companies responsible in terms of their own environmental impact by promoting
a reduction in emissions that can optimize production rhythms. Next came Enzo Liverino, President of
CIBJO’s Coral Commission, who for years has been battling to protect coral and its precious ecosystem.
To complete the panel, Pomellato spoke about best practices. For years the company has only accepted pure
gold supplies that meet strict in-house sustainability standards based on the selection of eligible sources
according to RJS-CoC certification. Moreover, Pomellato is enacting a project to improve controls on the
origin of silver and on the diamond and coloured stone supply chains. Its Nuvola collection is the product of
these intentions, a line of responsible supply solitaires which exclusively uses gold from the world’s 10
Fairmined certified mines – in other words, those that meet the highest international standards in terms of
social development practices and environmental protection – and which guarantees total traceability right
back to the original mine. The same goes for diamonds, certified by the Gemological Institute of America.
Thanks to its virtuous partnership with CIBJO, once again this year, Vicenzaoro confirms its role as an arena
for debating, reflecting and making decisions on key topics for the gold and jewellery industry, by integrating
ethics with entrepreneurship and state-of-the-art.