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Owen is a writer and global sustainability analyst. He is CEO of Planetary Stewardship, co-founder of Exponential Roadmap, Chief Impact Officer at Nobel Prize Outreach and Co-lead of Earth4All. His research focuses on the Earth system, the Anthropocene and the future of humanity. He has published in Nature and Science. He formerly held positions at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. He is a Future Earth Innovation Fellow and an Edmund Hillary Fellow.

His background spans journalism, academia, filmmaking, writing, communications, Earth-system science, international policy, astronautic engineering and data visualization.

Activities

Employment (8)

Utrecht University: Utrecht, NL

2025-02-14 to present | Guest Researcher (Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development)
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Nobel Foundation: Stockholm, SE

2022-10-01 to present | Chief Impact Officer (Nobel Prize Outreach)
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Earth4All: Stockholm, SE

2019-01-01 to present | Co-lead
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Exponential Roadmap Initiative: Stockholm, SE

2018-01-01 to present | Co-founder
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Singularity University: Sunnyvale, California, US

2018-06-01 to 2022-10-01 | Faculty, Environment
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Stockholm Resilience Centre: Stockholm, SE

2015-03-01 to 2022-10-01 | Analyst and strategic communications (Communications)
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Potsdam, DE

2018-11-01 to 2022-09-30 | Head of international relations
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Future Earth: Stockholm, SE

2015-03-01 to 2018-11-01 | Analyst and strategic communications
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Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?

Nature
2024 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85191095900

Part of ISSN: 14764687 00280836
Contributors: Luers, A.; Koomey, J.; Masanet, E.; Gaffney, O.; Creutzig, F.; Lavista Ferres, J.; Horvitz, E.
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Erratum: All options, not silver bullets, needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C: a scenario appraisal (Environmental Research Letters (2021) 16 (064037) DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abfeec)

Environmental Research Letters
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85159876355

Part of ISSN: 17489326 17489318
Contributors: Warszawski, L.; Kriegler, E.; Lenton, T.M.; Gaffney, O.; Jacob, D.; Klingenfeld, D.; Koide, R.; Máñez Costa, M.; Messner, D.; Nakicenovic, N. et al.
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Modeling human wellbeing on a finite planet towards 2100 with Earth4All

Research Square
2023 | Other
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2-s2.0-85184423749

Contributors: Collste, D.; Barbour, F.; Callegari, B.; Cornell, S.E.; Gaffney, O.; Randers, J.; Spittler, N.; Stoknes, P.E.
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Defining a sustainable development target space for 2030 and 2050

One Earth
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85124597189

Part of ISSN: 25903322 25903330
Contributors: van Vuuren, D.P.; Zimm, C.; Busch, S.; Kriegler, E.; Leininger, J.; Messner, D.; Nakicenovic, N.; Rockstrom, J.; Riahi, K.; Sperling, F. et al.
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All options, not silver bullets, needed to limit global warming to 1.5 <sup>◦</sup>C: A scenario appraisal

Environmental Research Letters
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85107638549

Part of ISSN: 17489326 17489318
Contributors: Warszawski, L.; Kriegler, E.; Lenton, T.M.; Gaffney, O.; Jacob, D.; Klingenfeld, D.; Koide, R.; Costa, M.M.; Messner, D.; Nakicenovic, N. et al.
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Investment in resilient food systems in the most vulnerable and fragile regions is critical

Nature Food
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85113140694

Part of ISSN: 26621355
Contributors: Queiroz, C.; Norström, A.V.; Downing, A.; Harmáčková, Z.V.; De Coning, C.; Adams, V.; Bakarr, M.; Baedeker, T.; Chitate, A.; Gaffney, O. et al.
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Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

Ambio
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85102696718

Part of ISSN: 16547209 00447447
Contributors: Folke, C.; Polasky, S.; Rockström, J.; Galaz, V.; Westley, F.; Lamont, M.; Scheffer, M.; Österblom, H.; Carpenter, S.R.; Chapin, F.S. et al.
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Leveraging digital disruptions for a climate-safe and equitable world: The D^2S agenda

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85096661912

Part of ISSN: 1937416X 02780097
Contributors: Luers, A.; Garard, J.; St. Clair, A.L.; Gaffney, O.; Hassenboehler, T.; Langlois, L.; Mougeot, M.; Luccioni, A.
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Our Future in the Anthropocene Biosphere: Global sustainability and resilient societies

SSRN
2020 | Other
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2-s2.0-85110164706

Part of ISSN: 15565068
Contributors: Folke, C.; Carpenter, S.R.; Chapin, F.S.; Gaffney, O.; Galaz, V.; Hoffmann, H.; Lamont, M.; Polasky, S.; Rockström, J.; Scheffer, M. et al.
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Planetary boundaries: A Compass For Investing For The Common Good

Sustainable Investing: A Path to a New Horizon
2020 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85096257135

Contributors: Rockström, J.; Beringer, A.; Crona, B.; Gaffney, O.; Klingenfeld, D.
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Powers of 10: Seeking 'sweet spots' for rapid climate and sustainability actions between individual and global scales

Environmental Research Letters
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85090419943

Part of ISSN: 17489326 17489318
Contributors: Bhowmik, A.K.; McCaffrey, M.S.; Ruskey, A.M.; Frischmann, C.; Gaffney, O.
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Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research

Nature Sustainability
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85078089579

Part of ISSN: 23989629
Contributors: Norström, A.V.; Cvitanovic, C.; Löf, M.F.; West, S.; Wyborn, C.; Balvanera, P.; Bednarek, A.T.; Bennett, E.M.; Biggs, R.; de Bremond, A. et al.
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Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against

Nature
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85075736795

Part of ISSN: 14764687 00280836
Contributors: Lenton, T.M.; Rockström, J.; Gaffney, O.; Rahmstorf, S.; Richardson, K.; Steffen, W.; Schellnhuber, H.J.
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Quit carbon, and quick

2019 | Other
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Rules to goals: emergence of new governance strategies for sustainable development

Sustainability Science
2019 | Journal article
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Rules to goals: emergence of new governance strategies for sustainable development: Governance for global sustainability is undergoing a major transformation from rule-based to goal-based. But with no compliance measures, success will require an unprecedented level of coherency of action founded on new and reformed institutions nationally and internationally

Sustainability Science
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85073619747

Part of ISSN: 18624057 18624065
Contributors: Kanie, N.; Griggs, D.; Young, O.; Waddell, S.; Shrivastava, P.; Haas, P.M.; Broadgate, W.; Gaffney, O.; Kőrösi, C.
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Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century

Nature Sustainability
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85064080082

Part of ISSN: 23989629
Contributors: Elmqvist, T.; Andersson, E.; Frantzeskaki, N.; McPhearson, T.; Olsson, P.; Gaffney, O.; Takeuchi, K.; Folke, C.
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Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century

Nature Sustainability
2019 | Journal article
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Living Planet Report 2018: Aiming Higher

2018 | Journal article
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Powers of 10: a cross-scale optimization framework for rapid sustainability transformation

2018 | Journal article
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Anthropocene now

New scientist
2017 | Journal article
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Integration: the key to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainability Science
2017 | Journal article
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Introducing the terrifying mathematics of the Anthropocene

Green Left Weekly
2017 | Journal article
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Odd one out

New scientist
2017 | Journal article
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Putin's real prize?

2017 | Other
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Response to Heijung et al.

Anthropocene Review
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85037999722

Part of ISSN: 2053020X 20530196
Contributors: Gaffney, O.; Steffen, W.
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Response to Heijung et al.

The Anthropocene Review
2017 | Journal article
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The Anthropocene equation

The Anthropocene Review
2017 | Journal article
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The Anthropocene equation

Anthropocene Review
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85018736005

Part of ISSN: 2053020X 20530196
Contributors: Gaffney, O.; Steffen, W.
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What's blowin'in the wind?

2017 | Other
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A roadmap for rapid decarbonization.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
2017-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Rockström J; Gaffney O; Rogelj J; Meinshausen M; Nakicenovic N; Schellnhuber HJ
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Global Commons in the Anthropocene: World Development on a Stable and Resilient Planet

2016 | Journal article
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The world's biggest gamble

Earth's Future
2016 | Journal article
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The Worlds Biggest Gamble

2016 | Journal article
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The world’s biggest gamble

Earth's Future
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84995567043

Part of ISSN: 23284277
Contributors: Rockström, J.; Schellnhuber, H.J.; Hoskins, B.; Ramanathan, V.; Schlosser, P.; Brasseur, G.P.; Gaffney, O.; Nobre, C.; Meinshausen, M.; Rogelj, J. et al.
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Scientists must have a say in the future of cities.

Nature
2016-10 | Journal article
Contributors: McPhearson T; Parnell S; Simon D; Gaffney O; Elmqvist T; Bai X; Roberts D; Revi A
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Integration: the key to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.

Sustainability science
2016-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Stafford-Smith M; Griggs D; Gaffney O; Ullah F; Reyers B; Kanie N; Stigson B; Shrivastava P; Leach M; O'Connell D
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International Geosphere--Biosphere Programme and Earth system science: three decades of co-evolution

Anthropocene
2015 | Journal article
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International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and Earth system science: Three decades of co-evolution

Anthropocene
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84956882455

Part of ISSN: 22133054
Contributors: Seitzinger, S.P.; Gaffney, O.; Brasseur, G.; Broadgate, W.; Ciais, P.; Claussen, M.; Erisman, J.W.; Kiefer, T.; Lancelot, C.; Monks, P.S. et al.
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The trajectory of the anthropocene: The great acceleration

Anthropocene Review
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84996501052

Part of ISSN: 2053020X 20530196
Contributors: Steffen, W.; Broadgate, W.; Deutsch, L.; Gaffney, O.; Ludwig, C.
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The trajectory of the Anthropocene: the great acceleration

The Anthropocene Review
2015 | Journal article
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An integrated framework for sustainable development goals

Ecology and Society
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84924356905

Part of ISSN: 17083087
Contributors: Griggs, D.; Smith, M.S.; Rockström, J.; Öhman, M.C.; Gaffney, O.; Glaser, G.; Kanie, N.; Noble, I.; Steffen, W.; Shyamsundar, P.
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An integrated framework for sustainable development goals

Ecology and Society
2014 | Journal article
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Quiet green revolution starts to make some noise

Nature News
2014 | Journal article
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Robust adaptation to climate change

Climate Change and Development
2014 | Book chapter
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Sustainable development goals: improving human and planetary wellbeing

Glob Change
2014 | Journal article
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Quiet green revolution starts to make some noise.

Nature
2014-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Gaffney O
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An integrated framework for sustainable development goals

OpenAlex
2014-01-01 | Other
Contributors: David Griggs; Mark Stafford Smith; Johan Rockström; Marcus Öhman; owen gaffney; Gisbert Glaser; Norichika Kanie; Ian Noble; Will Steffen; Priya
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An integrated framework for sustainable development goals

OpenAlex
2014-01-01 | Other
Contributors: David Griggs; Mark Stafford Smith; Johan Rockström; Marcus Öhman; owen gaffney; Gisbert Glaser; Norichika Kanie; Ian Noble; Will Steffen; Priya
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Ocean acidification: summary for policymakers

2013 | Journal article
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