Fossil Free Caribe – Caribbean Energy Justice

What is the Fossil Free Wider Caribbean Network?

The Fossil Free Wider Caribbean Network is a group of organizations promoting a just, ecological and popular energy transition in the region. We join efforts to raise public awareness and political advocacy, seeking to integrate civil society in the struggle to leave behind fossil fuels and promote mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

The risks and threats of the proliferation of fossil fuels are not limited to political borders, the impacts are regional and that is why as an initiative we seek to work together, with the purpose of protecting a common heritage: the Caribbean Sea.

What do we believe in?

Understanding that the exploration, exploitation and use of fossil fuels is the major cause of global warming, and that the Wider Caribbean is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the effects of climate change, in our Network we believe that the region:

Should not go backwards with new projects or alliances for the expansion of the fossil fuel industry.
It should promote and execute a just energy transition in the region, abandoning in a progressive and staggered manner the existing production of fossil fuels, while promoting a greater penetration of renewable energy sources, ensuring equitable access to them.
It must also ensure the protection and safeguarding of the human rights of environmental defenders.

Should not go backwards with new projects or alliances for the expansion of the fossil fuel industry.

It should promote and
execute a just energy
transition in the region,
abandoning in a progressive
and staggered manner the
existing production of fossil
fuels, while promoting a
greater penetration of
renewable energy sources,
ensuring equitable access to
them.

It must also ensure the protection and safeguarding of the human rights of environmental defenders.

Bayahibe’s Declaration

Let’s join forces to urge governments to take care of the Caribbean

Who are we?

The strength of our Network lies in our diversity of perspectives, strategies and contexts, and that is why we promote the development of a common agenda based on the particular realities of each territory. Any organization, or individual person, who agrees with our Bayahibe Declaration, can join the Fossil Free Wider Caribbean Network: