Decree no. 297-2013 (Law on Climate Change)

The objective of this document is to establish the principles and regulations necessary to plan, prevent and respond in an adequate, coordinated and sustained manner to the impacts generated by climate change in Honduras. It seeks to foster practices aimed at reducing environmental vulnerability and improving adaptation capacity, and develop proposals for the prevention and mitigation of the effects produced by climate change and other causes of poor environmental management. The establishement and management of mitigation and adaptation related measures are the responsibility of the Secretary of State in the Dispatch of Natural Resources and Environment (SERNA). The document further defines core principles to follow, the state's organisation over climate policy, and the attributions and missions of the Inter-institutional Committee on Climate Change.