Chris Turner
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Calgary, Alberta
Climate Change | Global Cleantech & Sustainability Expert
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CHRIS TURNER BIOGRAPHY
Chris Turner is one of Canada’s leading voices on climate change solutions and the global energy transition. Chris Turner draws on his reporting of the state-of-the-art in renewable change, cleantech, and urban design to paint a vivid portrait of a new, sustainable world order that will allow individuals and businesses to survive and thrive in the twenty-first-century economy.
An award-winning author, Chris Turner has published several bestselling books. The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands won the National Business Book Award, and his previous books on climate solutions, The Leap and The Geography of Hope, were both National Business Book Award finalists. His latest book, How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World, was published by Random House Canada in 2022. Turner also published a collection of his award-winning essays and feature writing in 2014, How to Breathe Underwater, which won the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.
In addition, Chris Turner writing on energy, climate, and technology has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, and many other notable publications. He has won 10 National Magazine Awards, among other distinctions. Turner 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.
As a speaker and communications strategist, Chris Turner’s recent clients have included the Canadian Climate Institute, Natural Resources Canada, TD Bank, Compugen, Shaw Industries, the Canadian Institute of Planners, and Siemens Energy.
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How To Be A Climate Optimist
Tracking the Global Energy Transition
Taking the Leap: Embracing the Sustainable Economy
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Chris Turner Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Chris Turner Keynote Speaker delivers customized and tailored keynote presentations, workshops, and training sessions on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique and are designed for a variety of audiences, industries, conferences, and event formats.
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