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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.