In 1993 the Foreign Affairs Ministers of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama signed the Regional Convention on Climate Change giving a clear signal of commitment to the work on the topic.
In 2008, the Heads of State and Government of the SICA member countries, met in San Pedro Sula, Honduras where they established their political commitment by declaring “...aware that climate change is one of the most serious problems facing humanity, that its impacts endanger economic and social development, and that it also increases the vulnerability of our populations and their livelihoods” and decided to initiate a process of broad participation by all sectors of society to build a common strategy to address the impacts of climate change.