This occasional newsletter highlights events and stories about innovation in sustainable development for rural, remote and island regions. We want to change the discourse to demonstrate how islandness can be a driver for innovation.
About Yasmine Encelade
Yasmine Encelade leads business development for SMO Solar Process, a modular, solar-powered, bioenergy with carbon capture and utilization technology, that turns carbon-based waste into affordable green hydrogen. The system also recycles the carbon into valuable industrial feedstock and can be used in low-infrastructure locations. With an M.B.A. background, she has worked on innovating multimillion-dollar early-stage projects and felt a strong calling to promote island leadership on climate issues with SMO Solar Process, the first recipient of the Solar Impulse label in the Caribbean, and recent laureate of the UN-sponsored Ocean Innovation Prize.
