Services
Working closely with decision-makers in our client organisations, we guide and support them to:
- Create practical and achievable solutions for the emerging green economy
- Integrate sustainability thinking and action into their core business to create value for shareholders and society
- Build a strong social and environmental ‘story’ and policy platform of their own, backed by performance, and
- Communicate credibly and effectively to their key internal and external audiences
A snapshot of what we do
Our service areas include:
- Developing holistic climate and sustainability business strategies for mitigation and adaptation
- Building an effective ‘policy voice’ through public affairs initiatives i.e. policy development, government relations
- Practical actions and initiatives to engage staff and value chain partners
- Executive mentoring, thought-leadership support and high-level coaching
- Stakeholder engagement, relationship development and alliance-building
- Solutions-focused product innovation & consumer behaviour change initiatives
- Developing and running community-based campaigns with sustainability objectives
- Credible green marketing communications that avoids 'greenwash'
- Communications strategy and activities (e.g. speech-writing, reports, presentations, articles, opinion pieces and media releases)
Where clients need help with professional and technical services outside of our skills-set, we can assist them to navigate the sometimes confusing offerings and conflicting advice to get what they need from quality service providers.
Retaining our services
We operate under both retainer and fixed-price project fee arrangements. We also provide speaking, workshop and facilitation services tailored to meet individual clients’ needs, including one-off engagements, by negotiation.
Please talk to us about what you want, how we can help, project structuring, and our normal terms and conditions. Contact info@the3rddegree.com.au
Examples of work by our personnel
- Overseeing and advising the development from scratch of a national mass-action campaign to drive behaviour change at household level to cut CO2 emissions
- Co-leading a team advising a major Australian energy utility on developing its climate strategy with a target to cut carbon emissions by 60 percent of its 1990 baseline by 2050
- Leading the research and writing of a business guide on credible green marketing supported by an extensive position paper on the problem of 'greenwash' and how best to avoid it
- Developing an innovative new device - for consumers to monitor and manage their household energy use in real time - through to early commercialisation stage
- Conceiving and leading the execution of the world’s largest consumer environmental competition ($100,000 in prizes) with a major Sydney’ newspaper, helping drive the distribution of about 1.5 million energy efficient light globes in a month; and building distribution links with major community networks
- Guiding a major Australian manufacturer in the renewable energy sector to build supportive relationships with enviornment groups, social welfare organisations and other NGO stakeholders
- Helping to initiate a national campaign for collection and recycling of consumer packaging in Australia as part of a major focus on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
- Working as a member of strategy teams with ASX100 companies to shape corporate sustainability strategies that have won the clients national and international recognition as leaders in their sectors (including Dow Jones Sustainability Index)
- Co-authoring thought-leadership publications on corporate sustainability
- Designing and executing a comprehensive stakeholder engagement process that produced supplier criteria for a major international minerals buyer to cover a major new mining precinct in Australia's Murray Basin
- Creating and coordinating a new national environment awards
- Covering the Kyoto Climate Summit in 1997 as a journalist for a leading Australian newspaper
Reference
‘Murray Hogarth understands social and environmental challenges and how they impact on business. He has worked with me on a number of initiatives in Australia and across Asia. These initiatives have ranged from mobilising an Industry, Government and Community effort to address alcohol misuse, through to identifying and developing action plans across a range of markets and cultures to address community and environmental issues based on direct engagement with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders. Murray's forthright and probing style saw him play a critical role in agitating for change, ensuring that we recognised and engaged the issues head on. The outcome was measured not just in the success of each initiative, but also in the fundamental skills and confidence that we have gained in engaging the issues and stakeholders directly and in our understanding of the difference we can make to the world though our business and the way we approach it.’