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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

Supply chain

Adidas says 'impossible is nothing' to detox challenge

Sports brand hosts forum to develop cross-industry approach to phase out hazardous chemicals in supply chain

clock 01 September 2011 •

Wind

Three new Lockheed Martin radars could unlock 8GW of wind power

Developers buy £20m radar to allow North British Windpower's Fallago Rig project to progress

clock 01 September 2011 •

Management

Nissan Leafs to help National Grid upgrade London's energy networks

Gas and electric company leases four electric vehicles for use in fleet

clock 25 August 2011 •

Biomass

Ministers urged to back biomass with subsidy certainty

Campaign backed by British Sugar, Drax and E.ON calls for swift, stable support for biomass energy

clock 24 August 2011 •

Supply chain

Exclusive: Adidas reveals talks underway to detox global sportswear supply chain

Clothing giant insists work to tackle toxins is underway, as latest Greenpeace report slams industry's use of harmful chemicals

clock 23 August 2011 •

Wind

UTC bullish about wind energy prospects, despite collapse of Britannia

Clipper focuses its efforts onshore, but refuses to rule out return to offshore market

clock 22 August 2011 •

Wind

Offshore wind tsar to lead cost cutting taskforce

RenewableUK chairman Andrew Jamieson appointed head of new body tasked with cutting offshore wind costs to £100/MWh

clock 22 August 2011 •

Wind

Giant 10MW Britannia wind turbine project shelved

Clipper Windpower's Newcastle project put on hold by parent company UTC as Crown Estate confirms it will not buy prototype

clock 19 August 2011 •

Wind

First turbine starts spinning at Vattenfall's Ormonde offshore wind farm

Swedish utility will soon file for consent to extend 90MW Kentish Flats and build 1.2GW Round 3 offshore wind farm

clock 19 August 2011 •

Marketing

Post-recession consumers will want greener goods, says Amex

Study for American Express predicts retailers will have to become more transparent to meet the needs of "Karmercialists"

clock 19 August 2011 •