Chris Turner is an authoritative voice on climate solutions with more than 20 years of experience tracking the global energy transition. His latest book is “How to Be a Climate Optimist,” a survey of the first two decades of progress on solutions to the climate crisis. His previous books on climate, energy and technology include multiple bestsellers and winners of Canada's National Business Book Award. His essays and features on energy, climate and technology have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Vox, the MIT Technology Review, and many other publications, and he has won 10 Canadian National Magazine Awards.

As a speaker and communications strategist, Turner's recent clients have included ASHRAE, Nexans, Compugen, Shaw Industries, TD Bank, the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp., the Canadian Climate Institute, Natural Resources Canada and Siemens Energy. He was a 2019 media fellow at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, a 2013 writer-in-residence at the Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon, and a 2010 Paul D. Fleck Fellow at the Banff Centre. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife, the author Ashley Bristowe, and their two children.

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