Extreme weather 

Damage caused by extreme weather events during 2009 and 2010 in Central America mean that climate change is now a high-level policy priority, especially for the government of El Salvador. The President of El Salvador, last year on July 20th, in an extraordinary meeting of presidents that was convened in San Salvador, launched the intervention process. Climate Change was put as the number one issue for the region. The government of El Salvador's position, which mirrors that of other Central American countries like Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras, is due to the fact that anthropogenic (human caused) climate change is impacting the planet more than ever, and scientists expect it to worsen. El Salvador, has been dramatically affected by severe weather events including extreme rain events and flooding from tropical storms and hurricanes that are increasing in both frequency and intensity. Congressman Valencia is also calling for all institutions of the government to incorporate their policies and laws towards addressing issues of adaptation to climate change so that government resources can be invested into the functions of adapting. In Central America, there is a very close linkage between climate change and security. If These problems are not addressed and not seriously put into action, the losses, the diversion of resources simply to attend to emergencies, will become so large that these countries won’t have any resources to invest in health, education, and so on.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/03/201132141536987194.html
http://cdkn.org/project/el-salvador-national-climate-change-strategy/