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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

Aviation

Mayor: Boris Island is the "obvious solution" to airport over-capacity

Boris Johnson angers green groups by claiming a new South-East hub is needed to avoid exporting jobs and emissions abroad

clock 18 October 2011 •

Supply chain

M&S tights factory climbs ladder to sustainability

Courtaulds Textiles' Derbyshire plant is first in UK to receive Marks and Spencer's eco-model status following £2m renovation

clock 17 October 2011 •

Automotive

Could a corporate Boris Bike account offer your firm a ticket to ride?

Firms in the City of London urge Transport for London to adopt corporate payment system for popular cycle hire scheme

clock 17 October 2011 •

Automotive

London eyes up Paris-style electric car hire scheme

Assembly Environment Committee chairman touts Autolib system to help mayor meet electric vehicle ambitions

clock 14 October 2011 •

Policy

Is poor air quality costing your business time and money?

New campaign urges businesses to fit ventilation systems that comply with European guidelines

clock 14 October 2011 •

Risk

Defra launches air quality consultation in face of legal action

Move raises questions about legality of UK's time extension to meet European PM10 limits

clock 13 October 2011 •

Energy

Exclusive: Could UK waste generate Dong's energy?

Dong Energy chief executive Anders Eldrup hints at plan to break into waste-to-energy market

clock 13 October 2011 •

IT

Natural cooling helps half of datacentres chill out

New study reveals an unexpectedly high number of datacentres adopting energy-saving technologies

clock 13 October 2011 •

Policy

Defra helps Europe un-WRAP a resource-efficient economy

New European Environment Agency survey aims to flesh out Janez Potočnik's 2020 roadmap for a resource-efficient economy

clock 12 October 2011 •

Risk

Ecocide lawyer predicts global run of mock trials

Campaign to establish ecocide as the fifth crime against peace gathers pace after successful mock trial at UK's Supreme Court

clock 12 October 2011 •