Speakers Profile - Murray Hogarth










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Murray Hogarth is a business environmentalist. He advises corporate, government and community clients on climate and sustainability strategy and communications through his own consultancy the 3rd degree, and also as a Consultant & Strategy Adviser with leading public affairs solutions firm Hawker Britton.

A former Environment Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, Murray worked with Australia's pioneering specialist sustainability firm Ecos Corporation for nine years from 1999, including serving as joint managing partner in 2007-8. Through Ecos, he consulted to major national and international companies across numerous industry sectors in Australia, the US and Asia.

Murray is a regular speaker, writer and media commentator on climate and sustainability issues and is the author of The 3rd Degree: Frontline in Australia's Climate War, published by Pluto Australia in 2007. Other recent publications include 'The End of Greenwash', 'The Green CRED Checklist' and 'Crunch Time for Carbon Offsets', all published with the Green Capital program in 2008.

His climate and sustainability portfolio roles also include:

-Senior Adviser to the Total Environment Centre's groundbreaking Green Capital program

-Sustainability and Community Director for Wattwatchers, a new technology company focused on driving consumer behaviour towards energy efficiency

-Adviser to community mass action group Climate Coolers and its 'Million Women' campaign

-Board Member of the Environmental Defenders' Office of NSW since 1999

In the 1980s and '90s, Murray had an award-winning career as an investigative journalist, reporting for flagship ABC-TV current affairs programs Four Corners and The 7.30 Report, and with top newspapers such as The National Times and The Australian.