Career
He is the author of Carbon Detox (2007) and Don"t Even Think About lieutenant: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change (2014). He lives in mid-Wales. From 1988 to 2000 Marshall worked on campaigns for tropical forest conservation and defence of indigenous land rights with the Australian-based Rainforest Information Centre and The Ecologist magazine, specialising in the exposure of corruption and illegal logging in Papua New Guinea.
Marshall subsequently worked as international campaigns director for the Rainforest Foundation and the director of the forests campaign for Greenpeace United States of America. In 2003 he co-founded (with Richard Sexton) Climate Outreach, a United Kingdom charity that specialises in increasing public engagement in climate-change related issues.
He is currently the Director of Projects at Climate Outreach and leads on a range of projects applying the latest research in climate communications. In 2000 Marshall took a year"s sabbatical to renovate a terrace house for his family as a model low energy retrofit that reduced energy and water use by two thirds.
Marshall has spoken and written extensively on the need to engage new audiences on climate change, especially conservatives and people of religious faith. Narratives for Sustainable Development in Wales (2012)
After the floods: communicating climate change around extreme weather (2014)
Starting a New Conversation on Climate Change with the European Centre-Right (2015)
A campaigner’s guide to talking with centre-right politicians and MEPs (2015)
Selected presentations and articles
How to talk to a Climate Change denier - YouTube video synthesising research for the general public
Why we still don"t believe in climate change - Opinion piece for New Scientist, July 2010
Why we find it so hard to act on climate change - Yes Magazine,
Why do We Ignore Climate Change in conversation with Robert Manne.
