Lab-grown diamond producers buff up green credentials

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : It has trademarked the brand Lusix Sun Grown Diamonds and claims to be the first company in the world to grow diamonds by using only solar power.
59% : But Michael Liebreich, a clean energy and net zero consultant who is also an adviser to the UK Board of Trade, says: "Boasting about making diamonds with renewable energy is like boasting about serving organic caviar on the Titanic."
57% : But, because solar energy is only captured during daylight hours and storing it requires enormous batteries, and diamond growing reactors run constantly, it is not always solar energy that powers the factory.
42% : He argues that "Mining and marketing a one-carat natural diamond emits about 120kg of CO₂. Rich people switching to zero-carbon diamonds would [make] a minuscule reduction in their carbon footprint -- but at a cost of potentially devastating damage to mining communities.

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