Mark Turner (UK) is a senior communications consultant for the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G).
Turner has seen the world of international affairs from many sides, as a foreign correspondent, NGO activist, aid worker, and speechwriter.
He was the Financial Times' Africa correspondent, and later UN correspondent, with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. After leaving newspapers he moved into public interest communications, including with the advocacy group Avaaz.org, IOM (after the Haiti earthquake), IRENA (renewable energy), UNHCR (refugees), and OCHA, as speechwriter for Valerie Amos, the UN's humanitarian aid chief. He lives in the Surrey hills of southern England, and loves games and long walks on the heath.
Featured Work
SEP 26, 2022 • Podcast
C2GTalk: How can countries work together to tackle climate change? with Sunita Narain
Countries need to set aside their differences, recognize their interdependence, and negotiate as equals to tackle the climate crisis, says Sunita Narain, the director general ...
MAY 31, 2022 • Podcast
C2GTalk: Should the world consider solar radiation modification in light of the latest IPCC findings? with Thelma Krug
More research and better governance is needed to help developing countries make decisions about solar radiation modification (SRM), says Thelma Krug, vice-chair of the Intergovernmental ...
MAY 2, 2022 • Podcast
C2GTalk: How has the governance of solar radiation modification progressed in recent years? with Oliver Morton
The debate around solar radiation modification has broadened in recent years, but there has not yet been significant progress on international mechanisms to govern it, ...
MAR 21, 2022 • Podcast
C2GTalk: How does society view solar radiation modification experiments? with Sheila Jasanoff
It is important to see proposed solar radiation modification experiments in a wider social context, says Sheila Jasanoff, the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology ...
MAR 14, 2022 • Podcast
C2GTalk: Should scientists be allowed to do outdoor research on solar radiation modification? with Ken Caldeira
Over the last two decades, solar radiation modification has gone from an intellectual experiment to something people are seriously considering, says pioneering climate scientist Ken ...
JAN 18, 2022 • Podcast
C2GDiscuss: An Introduction to the Series, with C2G Executive Director Janos Pasztor
"C2GDiscuss" is a series of moderated in-depth conversations between diverse experts on some of the governance challenges of climate-altering approaches. In this podcast, Mark ...
JAN 10, 2022 • Podcast
C2GTalk: How can fiction help people think about solar radiation modification? with Eliot Peper
When author Eliot Peper first heard about solar geoengineering, or solar radiation modification, he knew he had to write a novel. "There are so many ...
DEC 6, 2021 • Podcast
C2GTalk: How can the idea of a planetary emergency help the world emerge from crisis? with Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Understanding that we face a planetary emergency can help countries and citizens around the world overcome our many interlocking crises, says Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, co-president of ...
NOV 29, 2021 • Podcast
C2GTalk: How might solar radiation modification be put on the international governance agenda? with Marc Vanheukelen
It is important to reflect internationally on climate-altering approaches such as solar radiation modification, in case the world is not capable of meeting the mitigation ...
NOV 22, 2021 • Podcast
C2GTalk: How do we include sustainable development when considering climate-altering approaches? with Youba Sokona
Context matters and without clarity on the impacts that climate-altering approaches will have from different perspectives, it will be difficult to deal with the ethical ...