The Corangamite CMA is responsible for setting regional management directions for the region’s natural assets, including wetlands. In developing regional approaches, it needs to recognise and allow for changes in the climate, as well as associated social and economic values. The Corangamite CMA has been trialling a planning approach, adaptation pathways, that addresses the uncertainty and challenges of climate change decision‐making. Adaptation pathways enables the consideration of multiple possible futures and allows the analysis and exploration of the robustness and flexibility of various options across those multiple futures. Case studies of adaptation pathways have been applied for wetlands in the region and these will form the basis for Chris’s talk.