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Munich, 6th February 2015: German energy and technology companies with investments in Russia have a role to play to defuse geopolitical tensions, was the message of Earth Security at the Munich Security Conference.

London, 4th February 2015: "2015 is a critical year for sustainable development" Professor Jeffrey Sachs was categorical in his opening remarks at the launch of the Earth Security Index 2015 published by the Earth Security and hosted by Willis Group.

Earth Security, in partnership with the Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN), involving Indonesian banks, insurance companies and investors in considering a series of product, strategy and policy innovations to support the trend of corporate commitments towards sustainable palm oil, including the KADIN-led business pledges to zero deforestation in Indonesia.

Earth Security has joined the Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) as a supporting institution, strengthening Earth Security's commitment and network to support the insurance sector’s advancement of resilient growth strategies in emerging economies.

Earth Security CEO, Alejandro Litovsky presented a preview of the Earth Security Index 2015 at Chatham House's two-day Food Security Conference on mapping risks and building resilience on 1st and 2nd December 2014.

As global companies must respond to country conditions increasingly marked by resource challenges, engaging in a dialogue with policy-makers and other companies, which bridges the market realities of Europe and many emerging economies, is becoming a central aspect of strategy and risk management.

Netafim is a leading global company in drip irrigation technology. Netafim's 2013 Corporate Sustainability Report: “At the Heart of the Food, Water and Land Nexus” draws on the Earth Security CEO Alejandro Litovsky’s view of linking the company’s market growth strategy to its role in supporting water efficiency policies.

Set amongst the treetops of the bamboo forests of Zhejiang Province, we supported the BMW Foundation team to design and convene 30 high-level participants from emerging economies and European companies, governments and civil society for an eye-to-eye and frank discussion regarding the transition towards a world of shared responsibilities for resources.

Earth Security CEO Alejandro Litovsky discusses political risk and resource scarcity for Project Syndicate, outlining how resource risks in emerging economies pose challenges to investment and growth and knock-on effects on global investors.

A new report by Earth Security provides advice to financial institutions on how to direct capital to integrated landscape management (ILM).

Der Spiegel covered the launch of the Earth Security Index Report 2014 at the Munich Security Conference with a panel that included Minister Fu Ying, Chairwoman, Foreign Affairs Committee, 12th National People’s Congress of China; Javier Solana, former chief of NATO and the EU’s External Action Service; Harald Krueger, member of the Board of Management of BMW Group responsible for global production; among others, organized in collaboration with the BMW Foundation.

During the Cold War, the certainty of “mutually assured destruction” steered the nuclear arms race away from catastrophe: a would-be attacker would face immediate retaliation, inevitably ending in both sides’ annihilation. Today, a very different race – a resource race – is undermining stability in key regions of the world.

BBC Mundo, the Latin American service of BBC World covered the launch of the Earth Security Index 2014 at the UK Foreign Office.

Earth Security founder, Alejandro Litovsky, was a featured speaker at the Falling Walls Conference 2011 in Berlin, in collaboration with Swedish guitarist Anders Scherp. A review which follows was written by journalist Hillary Rosner.

Earth Security founder, Alejandro Litovsky, was invited to speak at the European Senior Corporate Executives’ Seminar organized by The Prince of Wales' Business & Sustainability Programme, 4–7 November 2013 in Brussels, Belgium.

Climate change poses "an immediate, growing and grave threat" to health and security around the world, according to a conference organized by a collaboration of doctors and military in London where Earth Security presented its work. Officers in the UK military warned that the price of goods such as fuel is likely to rise as conflict provoked by climate change increases. A statement from the meeting adds that humanitarian disasters will put more and more strain on military resources.

Earth Security founder, Alejandro Litovsky, discussed the risks associated with water limits at a session on water security in Rabat, chaired by Mr Aziz Mekouar, Morocco's former Ambassador to the United States, at the German Marshall Fund's 'Atlantic Dialogues', on October 25-27, 2013.

Earth Security CEO Alejandro Litovsky was a panellist at a Morgan Stanley forum on political risks in sub-Saharan Africa, organized by Morgan Stanley’s Metals & Mining and Oil & Gas teams in London for institutional clients.

The license to operate of resource-intensive industries operating in resource-constrained countries will be increasingly challenged. Corporate sustainability targets and government relations in the countries where companies operate must be revised accordingly. The article accompanies a report launched on the same day by the Earth Security and the United Nations Global Compact, which explores how global corporate leaders in the food and agriculture sector will be able to respond to the systemic risks they face from resource limitations.

Earth Security is working with the United Nations Global Compact to develop their Business Principles for Sustainable Agriculture. Earth Security has developed a strategy paper to help companies and the UNGC think about how to position business principles to impact the broader governance of resources and food security. It has engaged with global agriculture companies, investors, NGOs and governments, bringing to bear its cross-sector network, to develop a strategic report that UNGC’s core group of stakeholders have discussed in workshops in Geneva, New York and Rome over the next five months. The strategy paper will inform a joint Earth Security-UNGC report that will be launched in July 2013.

The 2012 droughts and other extreme weather events have reduced crop yields and led to volatile markets in basic food commodities, such as wheat and corn. Rapid increases in water demand and population influx in the region are turning the United Arab Emirates (UAE) into a key hotspot for food vulnerability.

The Latin American edition of BBC World Service interviews Earth Security's Founder & CEO in 2012 regarding his pioneering work linking deforestation in Amazonia with global security concerns for Brazil and other emerging economies.

In early June 2012, Earth Security and Sinal do Vale brought together more than 40 leaders from Latin American infrastructure and insurance companies, government agencies and reconstruction funds, and civil society - in the mountains outside Rio de Janeiro to forge new models of cross-sector partnership for urban resilience to climate-driven disasters. The project was funded by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN).

Earth Security's first report in 2012 discussed how investments in arable land are at the heart of a new global security agenda. The report outlines the risks of the growing wave of investments in farmland and commodities and provides a risk management framework for investors and policy-makers.

Twenty years after the UN-sponsored ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro, the sustainability agenda remains largely unfulfilled. The Rio+20 Conference to be held in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 provides an opportunity to create a new momentum for the sustainability agenda.