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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 X.com (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Sunday, 3 May, 2026
    Leadership
    Why co-CEOs might suit our tumultuous times

    Sharing the leadership burden remains rare but is not without benefits

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of two CEOs facing each other and doing a thumbs up
  • Thursday, 30 April, 2026
    Climate change
    More than 50 countries agree to work on trade measures to cut out fossil fuels

    Deals between buyers and suppliers of green energy or technologies among proposed climate solutions

    Philip Nugent, Irene Velez, Stientje van Veldhoven, and Maina Talia pose holding bird-shaped awards at the conference closing.
  • Wednesday, 29 April, 2026
    Climate change
    France leads way in plans to shift away from fossil fuels at summit

    Macron government sets out so-called roadmap ‘with a clear deadline’

    Stientje van Veldhoven and Irene Vélez Torres embrace on stage in front of a conference backdrop.
  • Sunday, 26 April, 2026
    Climate change
    Colombia hosts first meeting to quit fossil fuels as energy crisis worsens

    ‘Coalition of the willing’ kicks off strategy talks despite absence of big emitters

    Aerial view of Santa Marta port showing cargo ships docked, cranes, stacked shipping containers, and small boats in the water.
  • Sunday, 26 April, 2026
    Business travel
    Good news for business travellers

    The seats in economy that so many of us use are finally getting an upgrade

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of a plane flying through the sky with ‘zzzzz’ coming out the turbines
  • Sunday, 19 April, 2026
    Work & Careers
    The weird world of work perks

    Companies are reining in benefits, but workers are unlikely to miss some of them as much as you might think

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of a dog at a desk with its paws on a laptop, while a person taps it on the shoulder saying ‘hmm . . . ’
  • Sunday, 12 April, 2026
    Work & Careers
    A giant leap for jargon

    The latest Nasa voyage shows the pitfalls of insider language afflict even the smartest people on the planet 

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of an astronaut in space reading a book titled ‘space dictionary’
  • Sunday, 5 April, 2026
    Corporate culture
    Good news for CEOs with foreign accents

    Investors may prefer them but sadly the benefit does not extend to the rest of us

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of a person talking to a crowd of people who look confused and unsure
  • Sunday, 29 March, 2026
    Career change
    The surprising science of quitting

    Most of us are just one event away from resigning even though we probably should stay put

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of an employee running out the door saying ‘bye!’ while a CEO sits at a desk saying ‘ok . . . ‘
  • Monday, 16 March, 2026
    Non-Fiction
    Stories from the earth, sea and skies — four of the best new books on the environment

    The brutal business of oil and gas — plus green tariffs, the wonder of ‘murderous birds’ and bringing wetlands back to life

    A row of three book covers.
  • Sunday, 15 March, 2026
    Work & Careers
    The endlessly fascinating office protected species

    Being deemed close to the boss lets you get away with murder — until it doesn’t

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of a boss with a hand on the shoulder of one happy employee, while other workers sat at desks look angry.
  • Sunday, 8 March, 2026
    Work & Careers
    Why it’s time to end the grim march of the touchscreen

    Self-service kiosks make us buy more stuff and feel more lonely

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of a woman at a coffee shop using a touchscreen to order a coffee while looking irritated
  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2026
    Carbon capture and storage
    A contentious climate fix gathers pace

    Carbon capture and storage is making unexpected breakthroughs

    Pilita Clark
    An illustration showing a hand holding a globe-shaped container with a factory inside emitting smoke, symbolising carbon capture and storage
  • Sunday, 1 March, 2026
    Women in business
    Why it makes sense for women to work for women

    The numbers show pay gaps are lower when the CEO is a woman. Shame there are so few of them

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of a female worker talking to a female CEO sat a desk
  • Sunday, 22 February, 2026
    Work & Careers
    This meeting is being recorded. Did you know?

    AI is fuelling a surge in recorded work meetings that we need to think about more carefully

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of people talking saying ‘Blah! Blah! Blah!’ with a microphone hanging from the ceiling
  • Sunday, 15 February, 2026
    Leadership
    The age of the disposable leader

    Chief executive churnover is less visible than political headrolling but can be just as disruptive

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of a person leaving a door looking upset and holding a cardboard box that reads ‘CEO’
  • Sunday, 1 February, 2026
    Work & Careers
    What Davos taught me about corporate jargon

    Business speak continues to astonish and is spreading far beyond the corporation

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of people standing on top of mountains holding megaphones to shout phrases such as ‘North Star’, ‘Red Thread’ and ‘Ideation’
  • Monday, 19 January, 2026
    Non-Fiction
    The deadly force of floods and the welcome return of wolves — new environment books

    Titles explore unheeded lessons from a 1950s climate disaster, the carbon blame game, a guide for environmental optimists, and the rapidly changing face of the Arctic

    A row of three book covers.
  • Sunday, 18 January, 2026
    Work & Careers
    The dark truth of CEO silence on Trump’s climate retreat

    Failing to speak out about the US president’s ever more egregious actions is more dangerous than it appears

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of hands giving a thumbs up to a silhouette of Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 15 January, 2026
    Climate change
    Ask an Expert. Is it too late to save the planet? You asked, we answered

    The FT’s business columnist Pilita Clark, and climate correspondent Attracta Mooney answered reader questions

  • Sunday, 11 January, 2026
    Travel
    The surprising joys of under-tourism

    Avoiding the trials of modern sightseeing is more soothing than you might think

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of a woman sitting on the bonnet of a car with a coffee looking at the rolling countryside hills
  • Sunday, 28 December, 2025
    Year in a word 2025
    Year in a word: Tipping point

    Global warming risks setting off a series of self-propelling shifts across the natural world

    Pilita Clark
    Montage of industrial chimneys and the words ‘Tipping point’
  • Sunday, 21 December, 2025
    Work & Careers
    Looking back on a year of AI blunders

    Few industries have escaped our hapless misuse of this troubling technology

    Pilita Clark
    An illustration showing a worried person in a lab coat holding their head in their hands, surrounded by office furniture.
  • Thursday, 18 December, 2025
    Climate change
    The hard politics of climate overshoot

    Net zero is difficult enough — but an age of net negative emissions goals would be far tougher

    Pilita Clark
    A Masungi Georeserve ranger in a green shirt clears grass on a steep hillside with a tool, surrounded by dense, green mountains.
  • Sunday, 14 December, 2025
    Work & Careers
    It makes sense to look smart when flying

    But not because of anything to do with the US transport secretary’s campaign to civilise air travel

    Pilita Clark
    Illustration of a woman wearing a tracksuit looking in the mirror and holding a suitcase while saying ‘nice . . . ‘ with a smart dress hanging up in the background
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