Tom Murray
Vice President, EDF+Business
Work
Areas of expertise:
Forging unexpected partnerships that catalyze environmental leadership and collaboration across industries, organizations and supply chains
Tom focuses on ambition, execution and results. Challenging businesses and investors to raise the bar for corporate sustainability leadership by setting aggressive, science-based goals; collaborating for scale and impact; accelerating environmental innovation, and supporting smart environmental safeguards.
Tom Murray spearheads EDF+Business, which for 25 years has been bringing cutting edge solutions to high-impact companies – including FedEx, KKR, McDonalds, Smithfield Foods and Walmart – and to transform business as usual in their products, operations, and advocacy.
Recent projects include:
- Helping Walmart set a goal to remove 1 billion tons of CO2 from the company’s supply chain by 2030, reduce fertilizer pollution and improve soil health on 23 million acres of U.S. farmland by 2020, and remove 10 percent of chemicals of concern from its consumable products by 2020.
- Launching the Mobile Monitoring Challenge, a joint effort between EDF and Stanford University with technical support from ExxonMobil and other industry advisers, to inspire new and innovative approaches to reducing methane emissions and oil and natural gas sites. This challenge builds on the Methane Detectors Challenge, a groundbreaking partnership between EDF, oil and gas companies, technology developers and entrepreneurs that catalyzed market for stationary methane monitors that can prevent the loss of valuable product for the oil and gas industry – and reduce pollution.
- Expanding EDF Climate Corps, a summer fellowship program for graduate students to identify and accelerate clean energy initiatives at top companies, municipalities, and other organizations, into China, where leading companies like BYD, Changhong, and TCL will host a record number of fellows.
- Leveraging business to accelerate environmental innovation and deployment of next generation technologies – sensors, AI, data analytics, blockchain, and more – to solve today’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Background
- Prior to joining EDF, Tom held several positions at ICF International and Jellinek, Schwartz & Connolly, where he advised government agencies and Fortune 500 companies on environmental, safety and health compliance, pollution prevention, and legislative and regulatory strategy.
- Tom is a frequent speaker at business conferences and his work has been featured in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune, Marketplace, Medium, Environmental Finance, Climate Progress and GreenBiz.com. He is an advisor to the American University Center for Environmental Policy.
- Tom earned an M.B.A. from The George Washington University and B.A. in Political Science from Trinity College.
Latest pieces
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The 4 critical steps to climate leadership
December 4, 2018
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IPCC report reveals urgent need for CEOs to act on climate
October 10, 2018
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Scaling for good: can McDonald’s raise the bar for sustainable food?
September 14, 2018
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The future is sweet – and sustainable – for Allbirds
August 10, 2018
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Why this leading energy company sees opportunity in a low carbon future
June 12, 2018
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How an Indonesian coconut plantation inspired Mars’ “aha moment” on sustainability
May 22, 2018
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Environmental innovation is thriving in corporate America, despite the leadership vacuum in DC
April 25, 2018
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Amazon’s big opportunity: Transparency in sustainability
April 3, 2018
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Environmental innovation will transform business as usual
March 28, 2018
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Talking sustainability, soup and stout with Campbell’s Dave Stangis
February 6, 2018