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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.

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 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.

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.