An English company captures carbon from the atmosphere to create lab-grown gems.
Lab-grown diamonds are reaching new heights — quite literally — because of Skydiamond, an English company that uses carbon from the atmosphere to create what it calls sustainable, carbon-negative diamonds.
And jewelry brands, including the English designer Stephen Webster and Gucci’s experimental online store Vault, are using the gems.
Skydiamond is the creation of Dale Vince, a climate-change activist and entrepreneur, who said during a recent phone interview that 10 years ago he sought to “capture carbon on an epic scale by fiddling with the environment.”
But he soon realized that removing carbon from the air would be helpful only if
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