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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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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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