Fossil Free Wider Caribbean Allies

The Wider Caribbean Network has important regional and international allies that enrich collaboration among grassroots organizations, provide knowledge to members, and support the Network in fundraising, litigation, advocacy, and communication.

AIDA

The Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) is a pioneering organization of Latin American experts who provide free legal and scientific support to protect the environment and communities in the Americas. Understanding the global context, AIDA works to achieve environmental and climate justice, as well as to improve environmental governance in the hemisphere.

With the mission of strengthening people’s capacity to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, AIDA selects emblematic cases and projects where the strategic use of international law and scientific argumentation can set key precedents. To achieve this, AIDA works hand in hand with individuals, communities, national and regional organizations, government entities, academia, and international agencies.

CIEL

CIEL’s mission is to protect the environment, promote human rights, and ensure a just and sustainable society through legal research and advocacy, education and training, with a focus on connecting global challenges to the experiences of communities on the ground.

The organization’s team include attorneys, policy experts, and support staff that work to provide legal counsel and advocacy, policy research, and capacity building across four program areas: Climate & Energy, Environmental Health, Fossil Economy, and People, Land & Resources. 

GGON

GGON is a network of organizations around the world working to facilitate a global managed decline of oil and gas extraction in a just and equitable path. The network provides resources and support to policymakers, advocates, researchers, campaigners, and community members tracking and pushing the shift of our energy system off of oil and gas towards clean, socially just alternatives.

GGON recognizes that a managed and just transition away from oil and gas production, alongside coal, will be required to meet the climate goals to which governments have committed themselves under the Paris Agreement.

Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty

The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty is a global proposal that seeks to equitably phase out the extraction of coal, oil, and gas —as demanded by science and the legal obligations of States— while accelerating the transition to sustainable and accessible energy for all. Inspired by international treaties that have curbed other global threats, as well as by the struggles of Indigenous peoples, grassroots organizations, and movements for divestment, debt relief, and fossil fuel bans, the Fossil Fuel Treaty proposes a framework for international cooperation that would complement the Paris Agreement through a concrete plan to stop fossil fuel expansion and ensure a fast and fair transition where no worker, community, or country is left behind. The initiative is already supported by 17 countries —including two fossil fuel producers—, more than 130 cities, and a growing global movement that brings together over 4,000 civil society organizations, 3,000 scientists and academics, 101 Nobel laureates, the World Health Organization, faith leaders, 11 Indigenous peoples, hundreds of health professionals, and thousands of youth activists.