Colin Butfield – Executive Director
Colin is co-founder and Executive Director of Studio Silverback. He is also the co-founder of Open Planet.
He is the Executive Producer of the BBC series Earthshot, YouTube Originals climate change series Seat at the Table, and The Climate Games. He is an advisor to The Earthshot Prize and author of Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet
Prior to founding Studio Silverback Colin was WWF’s Executive Producer for the Our Planet project. He was the scientific and conservation advisor to the Netflix Our Planet series and is Executive Producer of the feature documentaries David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet and Breaking Boundaries
Over the past 6 years Colin has written and produced many high profile events (often with Sir David Attenborough) on the climate and nature crisis. These include main stage events at Davos 2019 and 2020, World Bank and IMF spring meetings, COP26 Private Finance Agenda, G8 and UN security Council.
Colin has worked on conservation issues around the world and during his career led many high profile campaigns and worked across number of UN Climate and Biodiversity agendas.
He has produced many award winning short films and digital content pieces on issues around climate change, nature and sustainable development.
Impacts of the nature and climate crisis are gaining pace. July 2023 was the hottest month recorded in human history. Weather, climate and water disasters have increased five-fold in 50 y...
What would we do if we really believed the warnings scientists are giving us about climate change and ecosystem collapse?
On the face of it, the future of our planet is pretty bleak. Perhaps 10 years to reverse both the loss of nature and runaway climate change, which together threaten much of human society....
