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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

Can the sustainable design movement remould consumerism?

PPR Home's Jochen Zeitz says businesses should create products with no environmental impact, rather than expect consumers to do the leg-work

clock 26 April 2011 •

Policy

London accused of breaching legal pollution limits

But government maintains it has not broken European air quality laws

clock 21 April 2011 •

Carbon Accounting

Exclusive: Will and Kate say "I do" to low-carbon nuptials

BusinessGreen's royal wedding correspondent examines the green credentials of the year's most high-profile wedding

clock 21 April 2011 • 3 min read

Management

Olympic Games delivers blueprint for low carbon construction

Locog head of sustainability challenges industry to build on the Games green legacy

clock 21 April 2011 •

Workplace

Toyota signs up to Meatless Monday moo-vement

Food service provider rolls out vegetarian initiative to US corporate clients, but says no immediate plans to launch movement in UK

clock 20 April 2011 •

Transport

UK's first urban cable car to start work in summer, but how green will it be?

Mayor of London confirms construction will start this summer on £51m low-emission Thames river crossing

clock 20 April 2011 • 2 min read

Policy

If only Mayor Boris knew which way the wind was blowing

The Mayor of London should abandon the argument that pollution drifting over from mainland Europe is causing London to breach EU limits

clock 19 April 2011 •

Transport

Hertz and Mitsubishi roll electric vehicles into car club scheme

BusinessGreen talks to Lance Bradley from Mitsubishi and Neil Cunningham from Hertz about the role car rental schemes will play in the fledgling EV market

clock 18 April 2011 •

Investment

Hertz adds Mitsubishi i-MiEVs to London car club

Rental giant signs EV deal with Mitsubishi, announces launch of UK's first electric bike hire scheme

clock 15 April 2011 •

Investment

Intelligent Energy boosts fuel cell prospects with £7m funding round

UK clean energy developer completes funding round and reveals manufacturing plans

clock 14 April 2011 •