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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)

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    • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
      Work & Careers
      The menace of the overblown job title

      Terrible epithets confuse and infuriate, but they are also on the rise

      Kenneth Andersson illustration of a person sat at a desk holding a balloon with ‘Chief blah blah’ written on it and a hand holding a pin ready to burst it
    • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
      Working from home
      Work from home if you want but don’t expect a pay rise

      Lower wage growth and higher productivity might be why bosses like remote working more than we think

    • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
      Climate change
      How to do climate policy in the age of the green backlash

      Too many activists fret about a lack of ‘political will’, as if such a force can be magically bottled

      Andy Carter illustration of a politician stood talking about the climate to one crowd, while another is ignored away in the shadow.
    • Monday, 12 February, 2024
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Busting myths and calls to action — a round-up of environment books

      Recent titles focusing on climate change include an interrogation of claims about data and pointers for citizens to make their voice heard

      Three book covers
    • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
      Management
      What a cultish coffee gizmo says about 21st century capitalism

      The inventor of the AeroPress ignored much modern business thinking

    • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
      MBA
      Thank goodness we’ve reached peak MBA

      This degree costs a bomb but might not even add value

    • Sunday, 28 January, 2024
      Travel
      We should have fixed jet lag by now

      Science has put a cure in reach if we can just work out how to use it

      Illustration of a sleeping person in the shape of a plane flying head-first towards a bed
    • Sunday, 17 December, 2023
      Office life
      The perils of mangling a name

      Mispronouncing a colleague’s name at work can be hazardous — and not just if it’s the boss

    • Friday, 15 December, 2023
      The Big Read
      The new climate commitments that really count

      Beyond the headline statement, three new pledges might cut demand for fossil fuels and eliminate potent emissions

      Illustration of COP28 leaders embracing, against a backdrop of the COP28 logo, a flaring oil well, a person carrying a solar panel, and wind turbines
    • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
      Climate change
      COP’s love-hate relationship with business

      The ballooning presence of executives at UN climate talks has prompted a rethink about their role

      Illustration of a business person suiting up for COP, straightening their tie with the knot replaced by the Earth
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Climate change
      China may be close to a climate tipping point

      With incentives from the rest of the world to slash its emissions, the country could be the leading force in the green transition

    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      COP28
      COP28 president denies using UN climate summit to pitch oil deals

      UAE’s Sultan al-Jaber says documents showing talking points are ‘false’ but acknowledges being asked to ‘engage’

      Sultan al-Jaber
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Too little. Too late. Too slow. But could COP yet turn the tide on climate change?

      As delegates assemble in Dubai, Pilita Clark reflects on an unwieldy, polarising, occasionally ‘unhinged’ process — and why we need it to succeed more than ever

      A car half-submerged in the sea
    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      COP28
      Climate envoys urge COP28 to secure deal in tribute to UN negotiator

      Dozens of diplomats call for successful agreement to limit global warming in honour of Pete Betts

      People arrive at the venue of the COP28 UN climate summit in Dubai
    • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
      Working from home
      ‘Double dipping’: why managers worry that staff have a second job on the sly

      There is growing concern that remote workers are offering their services elsewhere

      Illustration of an octopus sitting at a desk doing different things with each of its arms while saying ‘OK, focus’
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Leadership
      The inescapable tyranny of the bad boss

      Prevalence of toxic management is difficult to measure — but scandals show it is a problem in every sector

      Illustration of a person wearing boxing gloves sitting at a desk and reaching out to punch angry person standing next to the desk saying ‘blah blah blah blah!’
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
      Best books of 2023 — Environment

      Pilita Clark selects her must-read titles

      Montage of book covers
    • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
      Office life
      The fraught politics of the office whipround

      Technology is upending the age-old act of chipping in for a farewell gift

      Illustration of a woman with her hand in the air, cash flying about and a pair of outstretched arms
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Noteworthy new books on climate and the environment

      The latest developments in climate science and humanity’s radical — and not so radical — solutions

      Montage of book covers
    • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
      Employment
      How to hire the best for less

      Workers will accept lower pay at environmentally sustainable firms

    • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
      Management
      Performance reviews are awful yet unstoppable

      As review season nears, new research suggests appraisals may be even worse than we think

      Kenneth Andersson illustration of a manager’s hand touching the top of an employee’s head with a magic wand
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      UK energy
      Why Britain is so bad at heat pumps

      Years of backtracking and bungling has left homeowners and the climate worse off

      A man in a suit pulls a large theatrical curtain across a heat pump that is on stage
    • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
      Working It podcast17 min listen
      Are tattoos acceptable at work?

      Colleagues may keep quiet about your tattoos. That doesn’t mean they like them

    • Sunday, 22 October, 2023
      Office life
      Why expenses are a fraught form of fraud

      The Citi sandwich case shows why some rule-benders get a lot more sympathy than others

      Illustration of someone looking over a chaotic pile receipts as they attempt to do their expenses
    • Sunday, 15 October, 2023
      Airlines
      Flying is getting better and also harder

      New technology is easing years of travel tedium just as flight shaming enters a new phase

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