El Salvadors National Climate Change Plan

In the last five years, El Salvador has made an extraordinary effort to strengthen the regulatory and institutional framework that allows it to confront the effects of climate change in a timely and efficient manner. In 2012, the Council of Ministers approved the National Environmental Policy, reforms were also made to the Environmental Law (LMA), incorporating climate change into its structure, specifically Title VI-Bis was created, which establishes the basis for the preparation of the National Climate Change Plan and in 2013 the National Environmental Strategy was prepared, which integrates the National Climate Change Strategy. These instruments become the fundamental basis of the consultation process to prepare the first National Climate Change Plan (PNCC), as an expression of the State as a whole to respond to current and future climate challenges. The first PNCC in El Salvador is the result of the efforts of a large number of people from a diversity of sectors, territories and institutions; who have contributed by proposing actions and measures to respond in a planned, articulated and prospective manner to the climate threat that is already significant and is expected to be greater in the coming decades.