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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

Investment

Obama's multi-billion climate change pledge raises hopes for G20

USA set to make biggest commitment to date to Green Climate Fund during G20 summit in Brisbane

clock 14 November 2014 •

Policy

Juncker accused of seeking to roll back green growth agenda

Liberal MEPs say new Commission President wants to ditch plans for tighter air quality and waste policies

clock 14 November 2014 •

Solar

"Solar Cloth" to help car parks and retailers mop up sun's energy

Cambridge start up claims it is closing deals to install lightweight solar converters across 27,000 car park spaces

clock 14 November 2014 •

Policy

Government unveils £10m fund to boost community renewables

DECC confirms new measures to support community-owned wind and solar power schemes, but scraps plans to increase support for 5MW-10MW schemes

clock 13 November 2014 •

Investment

Anthesis buys M4C as it continues push to become leading green consultancy

Latest acquisition is fifth since company was founded 14 months ago

clock 13 November 2014 •

Wind

UK small wind industry 'driven to breaking point' by lack of government support

EXCLUSIVE: New report from RenewableUK calls on ministers to wake up to problems facing small turbine market

clock 13 November 2014 •

Wind

Vestas secures 800 wind jobs with Isle of Wight blades production plan

Danish giant and Mitsubishi announce plan to manufacture 8MW turbine blades on Isle of Wight, as new report underlines £21bn investment opportunity in UK

clock 12 November 2014 •

Policy

US and China agree to act on climate change: the reaction

BusinessGreen runs down the responses from key figures in the political, business and NGO sectors

clock 12 November 2014 •

Supply chain

Greenpeace raises alarm over illegal timber entering Europe

Activists confront ship carrying wood from controversial Brazilian supplier, prompting Belgian importer to launch investigation

clock 12 November 2014 •

Supply chain

Will 2014 be the year companies wake up to deforestation threat?

New CDP Forests report highlights rise in businesses pledging to end deforestation in their supply chains, but says more work is now needed to make good on those commitments

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