Chris Turner is an authoritative voice on climate solutions in Canada with more than 20 years of experience tracking the global energy transition as a journalist, author, speaker and policy analyst. His latest book, How to be a climate optimist, won the 2023 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. 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 Globe & Mail, the MIT Technology Review, and many other publications, and he has won 10 National Magazine Awards.

As a communications strategist, Chris has worked closely on major climate and energy policy reports for a range of clients across Canada, including the Canada Electricity Advisory Council, the B.C. government’s Climate Solutions Council, Public Policy Forum, New Economy Canada, the Clean Economy Fund, the Pembina Institute, and Natural Resources Canada. 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.

After 20 years living in downtown Calgary, he recently re-located to a farm outside his ancestral home of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, with his wife, the author Ashley Bristowe, their two children, and a pair of delightful dogs (in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People).