James Ellsmoor Presents “A Partner in Sustainability: Building a Clean and Resilient Cayman in a Post-COVID World” at CTEC 2020

The Caribbean Transitional Energy Conference (CTEC) 2020 brings the best of regional and international clean energy experience and expertise together. At this year’s event, James Ellsmoor, Director of Island Innovation, offered his knowledge in a talk on how partnerships, across industries, within communities and between countries can be used to build back cleaner and more resilient small island nations, such as the Cayman Islands in a post-COVID world.

The key opportunities highlighted in the presentation included:

The Cayman Islands Government has four goals related to renewable energy:

The session was moderated by Daphne Ewing Chow, a Senior Environmental Journalist and Senior Contributor at Forbes from Barbados who now lives in the Cayman Islands. During this discussion, a number of questions were posed by Daphne such as “How would alliances be made with other islands in the Caribbean?”

At the end of the session, Daphne added that James has been able to bring a global perspective from many different islands that might seem different to Cayman, but are facing similar challenges. The session highlighted the need for the involvement of all sectors of society in a successful transition to renewables and the need to look at all of the SDGs which are so fundamentally interconnected.

We would also like to offer a big thank you to dart for sponsoring this session and the Cayman Islands Government and Cayman Renewable Energy Association for organising CTEC 2020.