Meet Aether, Creators Of The World’s First Carbon-Negative Diamonds

Meet Aether, Creators Of The World’s First Carbon-Negative Diamonds

Aether is bringing the world's first carbon-negative diamonds to the world



Rich Dieckhoff

While diamonds may, indeed, be a girl's best friend, the majority are less-than-fine friends to the environment and everyman.

The enemy, you might say, would be mined diamonds—the production of which not only tends to exploit adults and children in poverty, but enacts environmental devastation to land and water and, in extreme cases, causes entire ecosystems to collapse.

Thankfully, the last decade has presented the world with a growing range of lab-grown diamonds, offering a conflict-free alternative, which display the same physical, chemical and optical characteristics as ‘traditional' diamonds.

Of course, the fossil fuels used to create lab-grown diamonds come with a significant environmental impact of their own. An impact which, even for brands claiming to be ‘carbon neutral', isn't sustainable.



Enter Aether, creators the world's first carbon-negative diamonds.



“We would be resigning ourselves to a fate less than pleasant if we were complacent with 'carbon neutral',” says Ryan Sherman, climate change campaigner and founder and CEO of Aether.

“If every industry today, across the globe, went 100% carbon neutral, we would not stem the change that's already