Author profile

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.

Follow

Articles by Jessica Shankleman

Policy

Contracts for Difference could be distorting market, warns competition watchdog

CMA confirms it is investigating concerns that Contracts for Difference regime and Capacity Market may be uncompetitive

clock 18 February 2015 •

Energy

BP Energy Outlook 2035: At a glance

BusinessGreen runs down the key findings of BP's latest annual market forecast

clock 18 February 2015 •

Policy

Climate Commissioner: EU needs a single renewable energy market

Comments come as new figures show green energy helped drive down emissions by seven per cent in 2012

clock 18 February 2015 •

Energy

BP predicts emissions rise of 25 per cent by 2035

Oil major also declares that shale gas revolution in the US is unlikely to be repeated elsewhere

clock 17 February 2015 •

Investment

ING Group beefs up green investment portfolio

Bank reveals it loaned nearly €18bn to sustainable projects and companies last year

clock 17 February 2015 •

Supply chain

Apple cracks down on polluting supply chains with 15 factory closures

One fifth of Apple's production sites failed air quality test in 2014, report shows

clock 17 February 2015 •

Transport

Reports: Apple branches out into electric car development

Tech giant said to be developing battery-powered minivan, as Volkwagen pushes further into hydrogen market

clock 16 February 2015 •

Carbon Trading

UK carbon market plan would boost emissions price, report says

Study by 12 institutions including Oxford University highlights benefits of an early 2017 start to Market Stability Reserve

clock 16 February 2015 •

Climate change

Climate change could bring dengue and yellow fever to UK, scientists warn

New research shows the Asian tiger mosquito could shift from hotter regions to Europe and the United States by 2050

clock 16 February 2015 •

R&D

'Cold economy' could create 10,000 jobs

New Carbon Trust report encourages companies and governments to harness waste cold energy for good use

clock 16 February 2015 •