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Daniel Litvin

Daniel Litvin

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Daniel Litvin is Senior Adviser to the executive committee of ERM, the global sustainability consultancy, and a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute. He is also Founder of Critical Resource, which advises energy and resource companies on sustainability and geopolitical risk, and the author of Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest, and Corporate Responsibility (Texere, 2004).

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  1. The Next Global Resource Crisis
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    The Next Global Resource Crisis

    Nov 3, 2022 Daniel Litvin asks how the West can avoid dependence on China for the minerals on which the clean-energy transition depends.

  2. The Unsustainable Sustainable Investing Boom
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    The Unsustainable Sustainable Investing Boom

    Oct 4, 2019 Daniel Litvin fears that a movement promoting more enlightened financial capitalism is starting to exhibit some familiar flaws.

  3. Storm Warning for the Fossil-Fuel Industry
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    Storm Warning for the Fossil-Fuel Industry

    Sep 26, 2018 Daniel Litvin explains that after a year of extreme weather events, the political pressure on oil and gas producers is likely to grow.

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    What African Electrification Requires

    Fatih Birol & Alain Ebobissé highlight the need for greater private-sector participation to boost investments in power grids.
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    How World Order Changes

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    World order is a matter of degree: it varies over time, depending on technological, political, social, and ideological factors that can affect the global distribution of power and influence norms. It can be radically altered both by broader historical trends and by a single major power's blunders.

    examines the role of evolving power dynamics and norms in bringing about stable arrangements among states.
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    Israel’s Blind Spot

    Ian Buruma explains the lack of sympathy, even among the country’s many anti-war protesters, for Palestinian suffering.
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    Will AI Close or Widen the Development Gap?

    Shamika Sirimanne & Xiaolan Fu call for multilateral action and grassroots pressure to ensure that the technology serves all countries.
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    Don’t Let Governments Break Encryption

    Jessica Dickinson Goodman & Ezequiel Passeron Kitroser urge citizens and lawmakers to fight for the privacy that previous generations took for granted.
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    Philanthropy in an Era of Declining Development Aid

    William Moore urges practitioners and policymakers to focus on already proven, scalable solutions.
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    South Africa’s Wrestling Match With Trump

    Adekeye Adebajo considers whether the current G20 president can still advance its agenda in the face of US obstruction.
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    How Aristotle Can Save Us

    Antara Haldar touts a conception of society in which politics and education cultivate the virtue of its members.
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    Trump vs. Europe

    Zaki Laïdi

    Donald Trump has left no doubt that he wants to build an authoritarian, illiberal world order based on traditional spheres of influence and agreements with other illiberal leaders. The only role that the European Union plays in his script is an obstacle that must be pushed aside.

    warns that the European Union has no place in Donald Trump’s illiberal worldview.

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