August 2025 | Lab Grown Magazine

August 2025 | The Lab Grown Diamond Resource Book 28 Mailed to 24,000 Jewelers Monthly - To advertise call (888) 832-1109 | August 2025 29 Scan this QR code to veiw our Starlab Bridal Lookbook Bridals C L A R G E S T S E L E C T I O N O F L A B G R O W N D I A M O N D E N G A G E M E N T R I N G S & W E D D I N G B A N D S www.gemstarco.com | sales@gemstarco.com | toll free - 1.866.368.5700 FINE DIAMOND JEWELRY MANUFACTURER SINCE 1992 Schaumburg, IL JULY 26 - 28, 2025 RENAISSANCE SCHAUMBURG CONVENTION CENTER HOTEL Dan Scott, Scott Kay’s former CMO of 10 years now runs Luxe Licensing, an 11-year old NYC- metro marketing, video production and licensing agency. He recently was awarded a Cambridge University honorary partnership, META multistream partnership, and is now an Oxford Press Board Member. Regulating the Validation Process Do diamonds need a group like The Con- sumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)? The CPSC is a regulatory body in the US responsible for enforcing product safety regulations and standards, including product validation. They have the authority to devel- op, issue, and enforce safety standards, ban products, and obtain recalls to protect the public from unreasonable. The Lawless Kimberley Process While we have outlined guidelines that may affect bills and laws in the future, there is one law we should spotlight specific to natu- ral diamonds. That being the Kimberly Pro- cess, enforced through the Clean Diamond Trade Act in America. This law prohibits the import and export of rough diamonds unless they have been certified by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS). The KPCS is a voluntary intergovernmental scheme or arrangement, not a treaty or in- ternational convention, aimed at preventing conflict diamonds from entering the main- stream diamond market. And, KPCS has had mixed success in curb- ing conflict diamonds. It has significantly reduced the flow of such natural stones worldwide, yet challenges remain daily en- forcement, smuggling, and its limited abi lity to address human rights abuses and contin- ued environmental concerns. A Cleaner, Greener Diamond When it comes to eco-friendly law and the KPCS, we must look at a non-state actor- centered soft law approach to governance of Climate Change. Soft law is concerned with relationships be- tween states making states the main actors or subjects of international law. We need to revisit the KPCS and a global diamond industry’s soft law regime that has had significant success in its application be- cause of its unique model for a legislative prescription. Billed the United Nation Framework Con- vention on Climate Change1 (UNFCCC). Sadly, this has been critiqued as being in- effective and inefficient because of its hard law approach hinging on the political author- ity of State actors. A better climate change- remedial regime may be one based on some elements of a soft law governance model in- volving Non-State Actors. Essentially, this article acknowledges the important role that NGOs have played in the negotiation of the UNFCCC and its regimes and which they continue to play in connec- tion with their implementation, but it takes the position that a new role or involvement is lacking. Complete detail on the UNFCCC is available here: https://tinyurl.com/KPCS-Climate- Change-Action ◊