Damon Matthews is a Professor and Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability at Concordia University. Damon holds a PhD in climate science from the University of Victoria, and is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada and a Review Editor for the upcoming Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has published more than one hundred research papers on topics ranging from quantifying the remaining carbon budget to assessing equitable approaches to allocate emission allowances to individual countries. He is internationally recognized for his work in policy-relevant climate science, as well as for initiatives such as the Climate Clock that use digital visualization and web-based technologies to motivate and accelerate climate action. Damon is the Scientific co-Director of Sustainability in the Digital Age, and directs the NSERC CREATE in Leadership in Environmental and Digital Innovation for Sustainability (LEADS) program, which aims to train graduate student researchers at the intersection of sustainability science and digital innovation.
Professional affiliations
Royal Society of Canada
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanography Society
American Geophysical Union
Attention Media: Will speak on climate change related issues
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Rod MacRae, Joe Nasr, James Kuhns, Lauren Baker, Russ Christiansen, Martin Danyluk, Abra Snider, Eric Gallant, Penny Kaill-Vinish, Marc Michalak, Janet Oswald, Sima Patel, and Gerda Wekerle. 2012. “
Could Toronto Provide 10% of Its Fresh Vegetable Requirements from within Its Own Boundaries? Part II, Policy Supports and Program Design.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 2 (2): 147–69.
Edited Collection
Book Chapter
Katie Mazer, Martin Danyluk, Elise Hunchuck, and Deborah Cowen. 2019. “Mapping a Many-Headed Hydra: Transnational Infrastructures of Extraction and Resistance.” In
Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, edited by Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, 354–81. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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