Nick Carter is a research fellow focused on solutions in Food, Agriculture, Land, Ocean, and Nature-Based Carbon Removal sectors at Project Drawdown.
He has a decade of experience working with environmental organizations in research and communications and is currently director of environmental science at the Game Changers Institute, leading research for the sequel documentary. He co-founded PlantBasedData.org in 2020, an open-access library of thousands of studies on the benefits of plant-based food systems, now evolving into IFFS.earth to turn science into strategy and systemic change. He has authored reports on methane and food-system disinformation, guest lectured at Yale and Harvard University, and spoken on panels with experts from Oxford and the Center for Biological Diversity. He previously contributed to the planetary-crisis strategy game Play.Half.Earth and helped launch CLIMAtlantic, a Canadian climate adaptation data hub.
Nick holds a master’s degree in environmental practice from Royal Roads University, where his thesis examined the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to animal agriculture.