Mainstreaming climate change in Honduras

Abstract

During the Rio de Janeiro Summit in 1992, initiatives emerged to actively combat the ravages of pollution and global warming. Some results of this summit were commitments to generate a sustainable development policy by the signatory nations, with the goal that all those involved would apply the agendas in their States. A total of 172 countries signed four agreements at this global event: Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on the Environment, the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Due to the arrival of these agreements in Honduras, especially the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity ratified in 1995 and 1994 respectively, the issues of environmental education, pollution and impacts, vulnerability and environment and climate change risk were reorganized and made visible.