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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.

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  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    The corporate backlash against net zero

    Emerging market stocks and bonds staged a rebound on a dollar sell-off

  • Monday, 28 November, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Best new books on the environment

    From Greta Thunberg to predictions for a ‘glocalised’ planet and a guide to real-life climate action

  • Sunday, 27 November, 2022
    Climate change
    Get ready for a net zero business backlash

    A welcome UN push to tighten corporate rules is sending shudders through some boardrooms

  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
    Best books of 2022: Environment

    Pilita Clark’s pick of must-read titles

  • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
    COP27
    Global warming target dispute leaves UN climate deal in the balance

    COP27 summit makes progress on funding for poorer countries but wrangling continues over final agreement

  • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
    Climate change
    The COP jamboree desperately needs a reboot

    Even many participants in these UN-sponsored events say that the meetings are no longer fit for purpose

  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    Renewable energy
    Climate tech 2.0 still has a one per cent problem

    A new breed of green technologies is drawing record interest and funding but only a few are developing fast enough

  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    Climate change
    ‘Loss and damage’ stalemate is at breaking point as COP27 begins

    The idea of richer countries paying out to cover the costs of climate damage has long been a divisive subject

  • Sunday, 6 November, 2022
    Office life
    Women are big losers in the politics of pockets

    You shouldn’t need to be a man to have proper pockets in your clothes

  • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
    Climate change
    There is no need for defeatism on climate change

    Challenges abound, but ahead of COP27, governments and regulators are finally getting serious

  • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
    Tech Tonic podcast25 min listen
    Climate tech to save the planet: How to keep flying

    Does aviation have a sustainable future?

  • Sunday, 30 October, 2022
    UK society
    In praise of swearing and its many glorious benefits

    Cursing may cause offence but we would be a lot worse off without it

  • Sunday, 23 October, 2022
    Corporate culture
    Rebranding is hard but there is no excuse for disemvowelling

    Companies have failed to learn the harsh lessons of the awful name change

  • Sunday, 16 October, 2022
    Office life
    The world needs more ‘desk-bombers’

    Anxiety about unscheduled office conversations is as pointless as fears about using the phone

  • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
    Workplace diversity & equality
    It’s great to see a third female Tory PM . . . 

    But not for the reasons that a lot of people think it is

  • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    The Tories have led on climate — until now

    A review of the country’s net zero commitments delays the response to a critical threat

  • Sunday, 2 October, 2022
    Work & Careers
    The business card is back, sort of 

    Digital tech is killing the card as we knew it, which is no bad thing

  • Sunday, 25 September, 2022
    Work & Careers
    Men who get their legs broken to gain height are not entirely mad

    Research shows taller people are more successful but leg-lengthening surgery is still a step too far

  • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
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    Five London hotels with eco ambitions

    Smart sustainable stays in the UK capital

  • Sunday, 18 September, 2022
    Technology
    The strange death of the company phone number

    As anger rises over clueless customer service there has never been a better time to offer a human, instead of an online form

  • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
    Working It podcast17 min listen
    A sceptic’s guide to ‘quiet quitting’

    Has Gen Z accidentally reinvented old-school industrial action?

  • Monday, 12 September, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Best new books on climate and the environment

    These urgent pleas to protect the planet’s wildernesses pose the question: can capitalism change to help stop the carnage?

  • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
    Work & Careers
    The hell of the business headshot

    The quest for the perfect professional photo is growing, but let’s keep it in proportion

  • Sunday, 4 September, 2022
    Corporate culture
    ‘I got mooed at for expressing milk at Goldman Sachs’

    A female banker’s riveting memoir raises yet more questions about standards of conduct on Wall Street

  • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
    Climate change
    Don’t ban private jets — make them a green testing ground

    The aviation industry should use these elite flights to try out new technologies and fuels

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