Owen Gaffney

Former Senior Innovations Fellow

Owen Gaffney is a global sustainability writer and analyst at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Stockholm Resilience Centre. He co-founded the Future Earth Media Lab and he is on the faculty of Singularity University. Owen trained as an astronautic and aeronautic engineer and he is a qualified journalist, filmmaker and writer. For a decade he has worked in Earth system science communication. His work focuses on policy, media and business impact of global sustainability research  and visualizing humanity's impact on the planet through concepts such as the Anthropocene and planetary boundaries, and transformation processes. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the BBC and the world’s leading academic journals Science and Nature. His work on visualisations with Felix Pharand Deschenes have been shown at the UN Rio+20 Summit and the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Related pages:

• Secretariat
• Sustainability in the Digital Age
• Our Future on Earth

Posts:

• Roadmap Provides 36 Solutions to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 50% by 2030 Worldwide
• Global carbon dioxide emissions projected to rise after three stable years
• Video: State of the Planet 2017
• The mathematics of the Anthropocene
• Global sustainability: 2016 in review
• Why efforts to define the Anthropocene must be more inclusive and transparent
• Gearing up for IPCC’s sixth assessment report
• Researchers look ahead to the growth of African cities
• Bees in decline: IPBES releases global pollinators assessment
• A historic summit with reservations: Reflections on COP21
• Future Earth Norway
• Data visualization for science: the next frontier?
• Hacking for urban sustainability
• How does equality link to global sustainability? Richard Wilkinson interview