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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

Policy

UN climate chief: New York Summit is 'clearly not enough'

Christiana Figueres backs scathing critique by Graça Machel who accused world leaders of failing to grasp the full challenge of climate change

clock 26 September 2014 •

Technology

Tim Cook: Transparency is key to Apple's climate change strategy

Apple chief executive underlines the company's commitment to reducing carbon emissions

clock 25 September 2014 •

Policy

Businesses are taking action to protect the world's forests

APP's Aida Greenbury explains the potential impact of the New York Declaration on deforestation

clock 25 September 2014 •

Climate change

Barack Obama: No nation is immune to the risks of climate change

The US Presidents speech in full from the United Nations Climate Summit in New York

clock 24 September 2014 •

Policy

New York Climate Summit - what was announced?

From city mayors to Rockefellers - BusinessGreen runs down the key green commitments from this week's conference

clock 24 September 2014 • 4 min read

Climate change

Barack Obama: Emerging economies must play their part in tackling climate change

US President sets out ambition for a global deal on climate change in Paris next year

clock 24 September 2014 •

Climate change

China targets emissions peak 'as soon as possible'

Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli also commits $6m to advance South-South cooperation on climate change

clock 23 September 2014 •

Policy

New York Declaration on Forests - in full

150 world leaders and businesses have pledged to end deforestation by 2030. Read the promise here

clock 23 September 2014 •

Policy

World pledges to end deforestation by 2030

New York Declaration delivers a series of major new commitments from governments and corporates

clock 23 September 2014 •

Policy

Cameron and Obama at the UN Climate Change Summit - Live blog

As 125 world leaders descend on the United Nations headquarters in New York, BusinessGreen keeps you up to date with the key events

clock 23 September 2014 • 8 min read