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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)
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    Climate change
    Wall Street is letting Orwellian doublethink kill climate action

    Why on earth are investors falling for it?

    Ewan White illustration of the justice scale with the earth globe on one side and money on the other.
  • Sunday, 17 March, 2024
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Has the push for female equality gone too far?

    The answer is clearly no but a large share of people think otherwise

    Illustration of a woman with steam coming out of her ears and looking very angry, saying ‘Wait. Whaaaat?!’
  • Sunday, 10 March, 2024
    Office life
    The misery of the meeting motormouth

    An ability to interrupt yammering windbags who steal time is a sorely underrated skill

  • Sunday, 3 March, 2024
    Social affairs
    Why are women still being cast off the glass cliff?

    Female workers are deemed more likely to rise to the top when the job is risky and less appealing to men

    An oversized CEO lettering pushes a woman towards a cliff edge
  • 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
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