El Salvador

El Salvador is among the countries most affected by weather-related events and other hazards, incurring annual losses of around 2.5 percent of GDP. Worldwide, it ranks second highest for risk exposure to two or more hazards, and highest for the total population at a relatively high risk of mortality. El Salvador submitted its Nationally-Determined Contribution (NDC) to the UNFCCC in 2016 which provided the platform to integrate its Low Carbon Development Strategy into the country’s climate change adaptation and mitigation programming. The country has established priorities to include climate-resilient, low-carbon coastal-urban development, improved ecosystem and landscape rehabilitation and forest initiatives. Agriculture and fisheries are considered instrumental to El Salvador’s inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction goals. The country has identified urban and coastal development, forestry, sea level rise, and salinization of coastal areas as key areas for its current and future climate change adaptation portfolios.