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Jessica Shankleman

Jessica Shankleman

Deputy Editor

Jessica Shankleman joined the company as a reporter in 2010 and left December 2015. 

She regularly took responsibility for BusinessGreen's leading news and analysis as well as managing the site's content hubs.

Jessica is a leading commentator in the low carbon sector, writing for the Guardian as well as appearing on BBC World News, Radio 4 and Al Jazeera to discuss business and environment issues.

She produces a wide range of news and analysis for BusinessGreen, focusing on issues including project finance, energy, technology and supply chain management. She also contributes to much of BusinessGreen's multimedia and data visualisation content.

Jessica is an award-winning journalist who prior to joining BusinessGreen worked for renewable energy industry magazine reNews.

She qualified from Cardiff University in 2009 with a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism. While there, she won an NCTJ Top Scoop Award for Excellence in Journalism for an exclusive story on the discovery of an unencrypted memory stick containing confidential child protection information.

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Articles by Jessica Shankleman

Recycling

Ecover pledges to help clean up oceans with new recycled bottle

Recycled 'Ocean Bottle' manufactured from plastic waste collected from the seas around Europe

clock 13 May 2014 •

Policy

Is the EU over-stating the cost of wind and solar power?

Greenpeace urges Commission officials to look again at falling costs of renewable energy technologies as it prepares 2030 climate package

clock 13 May 2014 •

Management

Ex-WSP consultants continue global push with SecondNature buyout

Anthesis Group acquires fourth specialist green consultancy in bid to create global services powerhouse

clock 12 May 2014 •

Energy

Is the government eyeing up cities as potential fracking hotbeds?

Ministers poised to unveil latest onshore oil and gas round, as Green Party campaigns against prospect of fracking in London

clock 12 May 2014 •

Wind

Offshore wind investment as safe a bet as roads and airports

New report reveals significant scope for cutting costs of energy through cheaper debt financing

clock 12 May 2014 •

Energy

'Big Society' failing to ramp up community renewables

University of East Anglia study urges government to provide bespoke support for grassroots groups wanting to install wind turbines and solar panels

clock 12 May 2014 •

Carbon Accounting

Colonel Sanders plucks up the courage to deliver KFC's sustainable fast food plan

BusinessGreen Plus grills KFC's head of CSR Ian Hagg on the firm's plans to slash energy use and carbon emissions

clock 12 May 2014 •

Management

Brighton University offers boost to Sussex's green SMEs

New £3m Green Growth Platform aims to help Brighton become an "economic powerhouse" in ecological technologies

clock 09 May 2014 •

Investment

Tesco launches LED switchover with new €70m Irish fund

Irish government opens National Energy Efficiency Fund with initial €35m from public and private investors

clock 09 May 2014 •

Policy

Pope prepares climate change encyclical

UN climate change chief says letter could send a strong signal about the moral imperative to reduce carbon emissions

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