Charlotte Turner is a Master of Environment student at the University of Melbourne focusing on corporate climate accountability and science communication. Her research involves an interdisciplinary examination of the challenges related to communication and language labelling differences between the scientific and legal disciplines. Her research includes considering the accessibility of scientific data to the legal community, and scientific training for lawyers to increase their knowledge to support legal arguments and advice. Charlotte has guest lectured at Melbourne Law School and has extensive experience delivering climate-related capacity building programs to the legal profession, and at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute Net Zero Academy.

Charlotte is a dual qualified solicitor with expertise in climate and sustainability risk governance, climate litigation (including greenwashing) and commercial litigation. Whilst practising as a lawyer, Charlotte spent five years working for Sarah Barker, one of the world's foremost legal experts on climate change governance, finance and liability risks. Throughout Charlotte's decade of legal experience, she has co-authored a number of influential guides and course materials on the topics of climate risk governance, climate-related mandatory reporting and greenwashing. These include for the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Climate Governance Institute, and contributed to publications for the Commonwealth Climate Law Initiative and UNEP FI. Charlotte is currently working at Climateworks Centre, an independent not-for-profit under Monash University researching credibility in corporate climate transition plans and localised sectoral decarbonisation pathways.

Charlotte has been involved with The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) since its inception at London Climate Action Week in 2019. Acting as the Co-lead of the Asia Pacific arm of TCLP, Charlotte has been involved in transforming climate-conscious contracting from an exception into a new norm, where professionals and their legal teams include clauses in commercial contracts that align economic activity globally with the goals of the Paris Agreement. TCLP has recently designed a training course to empower legal and business professions to align their practices with climate action. Charlotte will soon be launching the course in APAC.

Charlotte holds a Bachelor's degree in Applied Business Management and Agricultural Sciences (Hons) from Imperial College London, and has recently been a Wattle Fellow at the University of Melbourne.