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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

Legislation

MPs send electricity market reformers back to the drawing board

Energy and Climate Change Committee says DECC should be upfront about financial support for nuclear power

clock 16 May 2011 •

R&D

Cisco cements position as IT master planner for world's greenest city

Networking giant strengthens role in highly ambitious PlanIT Valley smart city project

clock 13 May 2011 •

Carbon Accounting

Carbon Trust: 25 per cent of carbon traded across borders

Study highlights need for firms to manage supply chain emissions

clock 12 May 2011 •

Workplace

Selfridges harnesses retail activism to save endangered fish

Project Ocean aims to boost customer awareness and raise funds to create marine protected areas

clock 11 May 2011 • 3 min read

Wind

Japan ditches nuclear plans raising hopes for wind industry

Yoshinori Ueda, director of Japanese wind energy association, urges government to pass feed in tariff law to boost renewables

clock 11 May 2011 •

Carbon Trading

Bluenext green contract aims to reveal price differences for next carbon trading phase

French emissions exchange to launch new contract to help businesses prepare for phase three of EU Emissions Trading System

clock 11 May 2011 •

Wind

East Midlands Airport clears wind turbines for take off

Leicestershire airport unveils two 250kW wind turbines and says two more will be installed in coming years

clock 11 May 2011 •

Investment

United Nations rallies private sector for forestry protection investment

Merrill Lynch chief says REDD scheme investors face risks equivalent to "emerging markets squared"

clock 06 May 2011 •

Carbon Trading

Businesses applaud EU carbon market security upgrades

European Commission asks member states to approve changes to rules and systems underpinning carbon registries

clock 06 May 2011 •

Risk

Report: Corruption could undermine global climate change efforts

Transparency International urges businesses and governments to strengthen anti-fraud efforts and address green policy loopholes

clock 03 May 2011 •