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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

Policy

Obama and EU poised for climate change collaboration

Draft communique includes commitment to sustainable development, as UN diplomats make painfully slow progress at talks in Bonn

clock 17 March 2014 •

Biomass

From tree to terminal: How Heathrow is fuelling the UK's biggest biomass boiler

BusinessGreen Plus follows the supply chain for the airport's new biomass energy centre

clock 17 March 2014 •

Biomass

UK's biggest biomass plant prepares for Heathrow take-off

Environmentalists may be wary of the airport's expansion plans, but Heathrow is about to take a big step towards cutting its carbon emissions

clock 17 March 2014 •

Policy

Road to Paris 2015: How do we value carbon?

Climate Change Capital's James Cameron reflects on the barriers that need to be overcome if the world is to agree an ambitious climate change treaty

clock 14 March 2014 •

Technology

Government scientists call for growth in GM crops market

Chief Scientific Advisor calls for relaxation of EU regulation for the controversial technology

clock 14 March 2014 •

Risk

Could insurance shelter the renewables sector from political risk?

New insurance product from GCube offers wind and solar developers payouts of up to $50m if governments change the terms of their contract

clock 13 March 2014 •

Waste

Green businesses struggling to get on board with "circular economy"

New survey reveals how many firms don't understand what resource efficiency means for them

clock 13 March 2014 •

Wind

Study: Wind power saves Europe €2.4bn worth of water each year

New report calls on governments to factor water efficiency gains into energy policy decisions

clock 12 March 2014 •

Marine

Ireland set to power ahead with Europe's first wave farm

ESB confirms €1.3m funding from Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to complete feasibility studies

clock 12 March 2014 •

Energy

Is the UK failing to keep up with EU renewables targets?

New European Commission figures reveal that UK is among the lowest performing countries on the path to 2020

clock 12 March 2014 •