El Salvador

El Salvador joined the CCAC in 2023. El Salvador committed to a mitigating greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants emissions and has launched several initiatives to address the interrelated challenges of climate change and air pollution.

Recent plans and strategies developed to further this commitment include the National Plan on Climate Change 2022-2026, the National Energy Policy 2020-2025, the National Environmental Policy in 2022 and sectorial plans for the NDC implementation.

In 2015 the Government of El Salvador submitted its first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This NDC was updated in 2021 (updated NDC) to include more ambitious and concrete goals in the health, transportation, waste, energy and agriculture sectors.

By participating in the Global Methane Pledge, El Salvador has also made a voluntary commitment towards reducing global methane emissions by 30% by 2030 compared to 2020 levels. See El Salvador’s first BUR.

El Salvador has also developed technical regulations on environmental quality as the 2018 special regulation on environmental quality technical standards. The country is also planning the strengthening of their regulatory instruments to prevent and reduce air pollution. Priorities are focused on reinforcing legal and regulatory frameworks to protect the atmosphere, strengthening air quality monitoring, reduction of air pollutant emissions from energy, industry, transport, waste and agriculture sources, environmental education and awareness raising, as well as enhancing best practices in natural resources use, energy efficiency, sustainable production and consumption, circular economy, and the prevention and management of forest fires and deforestation.