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Pilita Clark

Business Columnist

Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the FT where she writes on corporate life and climate change. Formerly the FT’s environment correspondent, her writing has won awards in the US and Asia and in 2019 she was named Environment Journalist of the Year for the third year in a row at the British Press Awards.

Before joining the FT, she was a Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Email Pilita Clark @pilitaclark  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
    Climate legislation
    Year in a word: Greenlash

    The seemingly unrelenting rise of populism has spurred a retreat from environmental targets

    Montage image of a heat pump and tiles spelling the word ‘Greenlash’
  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    Entrepreneurship
    Lessons from a cultish London bakery

    How The Dusty Knuckle makes bread Nigella Lawson loves and gives hope to troubled young people

    Illustration of a baker squeezing icing letters onto cup cakes and the letters spell out ‘success’
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Climate politics could be about to go into reverse

    It’s not just Trump — elections around the world may produce a new crop of net zero critics in 2025

    Andy Carter illustration of a game of chess with a looming figure bringing in more fossil fuel energy against the renewables
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Corporate culture
    The power of praise

    Recognising good work is cheap, effective and not done nearly as much as it should be

    Illustration of two people patting each other on the back and smiling at each other while saying ‘Excellent!!’
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Environment
    My awkward brush with green shaming

    In an ideal world we would not need to be prodded into greener behaviour

    Illustration of a worker at their desk while a parade of protesters with pro-green placards marches by
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    Office life
    The battle around ‘around’ and other awful woolly words

    The fuzzy meaning space is becoming depressingly overcrowded

    Illustration of a worker looked dazed at a screen, with the words Let’s Work Around circling above his head
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    Climate change
    Climate COPs and the art of the deal

    The Olympics of negotiations offer lessons for corporate life

    A young animated worker nearly spilling his drink talks to an older, calm-looking colleague in the office during a tea break
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    COP29
    Stand-off over UN climate summit host country for 2026

    Australia and Turkey vie for COP31 event that draws tens of thousands from almost 200 countries

    Participants stand near the Australia pavilion at COP29
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Climate change
    The push for climate taxes gets real in Baku

    Airlines say fossil fuel companies should be targeted first

    Participants in front of the main entrance at the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 at Baku Olympic Stadium last week
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    FT SeriesThe best books of the year 2024
    Best books of 2024: Environment, Science and Technology

    Pilita Clark, Clive Cookson and John Thornhill select their must-read titles

  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    World Without End — hit graphic novel making the case for nuclear power

    A bestselling French comic book argues we should forget renewables — our only option to address global warming lies in splitting the atom

  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    COP29
    Should a petrostate be allowed to host a COP?

    It may not be ideal but nor is it guaranteed to fail

    An oil pumpjack stands in the foreground with a historic stone building and minarets visible on a hillside in the background
  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    Leadership
    Wanted: more bosses on the shop floor

    Too many leaders avoid spending time with workers doing the jobs the business depends on

    Kenneth Andersson illustration of many people working on a shopfloor
  • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
    Managing yourself
    The dos and don’ts of the email introduction

    Sending a clunker to save yourself time does no one any favours

    A cartoon of a person typing on a laptop and the screen shows two hands shaking
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Climate change
    What could stop the global green energy race? A Trump victory

    He could also take tougher steps to stymie decarbonisation efforts next time around

    Andy Carter illustration of Harris and Trump fighting over a ship’s speed dial, with the Earth in the centre showing how the speed of transition affects the world.
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    Work & Careers
    Can the hard man of Brexit fix corporate groupthink?

    Steve Baker believes he and LSE professor Paul Dolan have the answer to a persistent business problem

    Illustration of a person walking over skulls that are strewn across the word ‘fail’
  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
    Working from home
    If you cough, you’re off

    Why is it so hard to follow this first rule of flu season office etiquette?

    Illustration of a person with a dripping nose wearing a Hazmat suit and holding up a sign saying ‘hello’ as they walk past an anxious-looking person wearing a face mask
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The best new books on climate ahead of COP29

    Obama’s climate negotiator gives insights into the fraught Paris 2015 deal while a historian does a demolition job on our energy transition delusions

  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Office life
    The case for office pettiness

    There is a reason white-collar workers obsess about the most apparently trivial things

    A minimalist illustration with a red background showing two figures. One person is smiling and pointing to an office chair, saying ‘This is mine!’ while the other person, holding a document, looks unamused
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Sustainable capitalism
    The great green business rethink is finally happening

    An overdue push to reshape markets, not just individual companies, is under way at last

    The letters ESG in the form of smoke coming out of chimney stacks
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Britain’s grid battery storage record is maddening

    The UK is great at building renewables but not the batteries needed to use green electricity effectively

    Illustration of a battery symbol with a tap on the end but a hosepipe unattached. Two people are stood looking on, one of them shrugging
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    FT SeriesThe FT Magazine’s Guide to the Business Lunch
    The FT’s favourite business lunch restaurants in London

    17 venues in and around the City worth rescheduling your 2pm for, and the best tables at each

    A stylish restaurant interior with round tables covered in white tablecloths, surrounded by wicker-backed chairs. Two black-and-white framed portraits hang on the wall
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    National Grid PLC
    National Grid blames old computer systems for sidelining batteries

    Britain’s network operator overlooks batteries up to 30% of the time when they are cheaper, company admits

    Electricity pylons and a wind turbine in Essex
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Work & Careers
    What, me? Retire? Just because I’m 80?

    Older workers are sticking around and that is no bad thing

    Illustration of an older woman drinking coffee while working at a laptop. A pair of spectacles, some books and a picture of a child are on her desk
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Work & Careers
    The weird truth about work is we actually like it

    Satisfied employees are convinced they are lucky exceptions in a world of toxic bosses and burnout

    Kenneth Andersson illustration of woman sitting at her desk shouting ‘I’m happy!’ while putting one of her legs on her desk, knocking her laptop and coffee off into her colleague, who in turn drops a set of documents from his hand
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