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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

Energy

Colorado brewer battles coal fuelled boycott

New Belgium Brewing faces boycott after it backs environmental NGOs, but is it really bad for business?

clock 23 July 2015 •

Risk

Can New York save utilities from the 'death spiral' created by solar rooftops?

New York start-ups are hoping to make distributed generation a financially viable option for large power producers

clock 21 July 2015 • 4 min read

Policy

Will Obama's Climate Action Plan stick after 2017?

The US President is driving unprecedented action on climate change but could his replacement tear it all down in 2017?

clock 20 July 2015 •

Supply chain

The forest path to an ambitious climate deal

Unilever's Paul Polman warns deforestation is struggling to secure the status it deserves at climate talks

clock 15 July 2015 •

Politics

Could Republicans one day put a climate hawk in the White House?

Donald Trump may be creating headlines, but a growing group of progressive conservatives are seeking ways to push the green agenda

clock 15 July 2015 •

Policy

Businesses warn it would be 'legally reckless' to resist Obama's clean power plan

Environmental Entrepreneurs and American Sustainable Business Council slam Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell for suggesting states could ignore White House's latest emissions rules

clock 14 July 2015 •

Biofuel

US aims to power up algae-based biofuels with $18m boost

Colorado School of Mines and University of California among winners of latest funding round

clock 13 July 2015 •

Policy

Climate change: Getting down to business

Businesses and governments have broken the 'catch 22' of who should act first on climate change, says UN climate chief

clock 13 July 2015 •

Policy

Government demolishes Zero Carbon goal for new homes

BREAKING: Treasury confirms end to carbon offsetting and energy efficiency escalator schemes in red tape cutting drive

clock 10 July 2015 •

Policy

Is the government's renewable energy subsidy crisis even worse than thought?

OBR revises up spending forecasts, putting further pressure on government to deliver certainty on the future of its clean tech plans

clock 10 July 2015 •