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End of May and beginning of June 2024, Mexico and surrounding regions experienced extreme heat. Mexico already reported 125 heat-related deaths this season.

City officials and coffee farmers, with support from UNEP, have launched a project to restore 1,150 hectares of forests and coffee plantations. The goal: revive San Salvador’s ability to absorb rainfall.

The objective of this feasibility study is to identify disaster risk finance and insurance (DRFI) solutions for up to 1.9 million family farmers in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Removing waste from water bodies helps tackle various issues, including flood risks. Plan International worked with two Salvadoran communities to build and install a new waste collection method "Riobardas" in a river that contributes to the flood risks.

This risk brief charts how food insecurity, gang-related violence and migration interact, creating human insecurity and how adverse climatic conditions exacerbate this vicious circle in El Salvador.

This seismic risk profile of El Salvador, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.

This factsheet presents findings from an analysis of 14 Latin American countries to document the SNIPs’ response to the pandemic, as well as to draw recommendations and lessons-learned for stimulating economic recovery in a resilient manner.

Located on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America. The country is especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, such as sea level rise, floods and more frequent and intense extreme weather events.