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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

Solar

Businesses call for fairer cost control for new solar feed-in tariffs

Friends of the Earth, TUC among those calling for "under-deployment trigger" to boost investor confidence in solar

clock 04 April 2012 •

Policy

Firms urge Davey to back EU 20 per cent energy saving goal

Opower, Knauf Insulation and Friends of the Earth urge UK to support ambitious EU Energy Efficiency Directive proposals

clock 03 April 2012 •

Investment

ReEnergise pledges to find hard-to-reach finance for green firms

Dedicated renewable finance brokerage reveals it is poised to launch domestic offer for Green Deal

clock 03 April 2012 •

Carbon Accounting

China's youth reveal 'startling' demand for low carbon goods

New research from Carbon Trust argues firms should accelerate carbon footprinting strategies

clock 02 April 2012 •

Automotive

UPS delivers greener fleet for London Olympics

Logistics giant calls for urgent expansion of biomethane from landfill sites to power low emission dual-fuelled trucks

clock 02 April 2012 •

Solar

Social housing solar developers prepare for latest cut to feed-in tariff

Multi-installation schemes subject to 20 per cent tariff cut, as energy efficiency standard launches on April 1

clock 30 March 2012 •

Energy

DECC launches plan to tackle heating hotspots

Heat Strategy aims to reduce UK demand, as ETI seeks partners for £3m consumer behaviour study into UK heat use

clock 30 March 2012 • 3 min read

Nuclear

RWE and E.ON dump "uneconomic" UK nuclear plans

Government urged to abandon nuclear power in favour of renewables after Horizon joint venture shelves 6GW of new reactors

clock 29 March 2012 •

Waste

Easter egg makers failing to smash packaging problem, says MP

Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson urges confectioners to set a good egg-sample to help cut plastic packaging waste

clock 29 March 2012 •

Politics

Ken Livingstone pledges to 'work on every front' to fight climate change

London mayoral candidate for Labour secures backing from Green Party for second preference votes

clock 29 March 2012 •