Scenario-based planning for a changing climate in the Bras d'Or ecosystem

Therefore, to be effective in adapting to climate change, we should try to look at impacts of climate change and needed responses in the context of other challenges and opportunities that regions are facing, and in this way account for synergies and trade-offs between climate change responses and other policies and measures. [...] PSD approaches also helped in identifying locally relevant pathways of autonomous and planned adaptations in the context of development choices and decisions, and in informing actors of and possible consequences of adaptation actions. [...] From the 21 evaluations, the average score indicated a ―successful‖ workshop: half of the participants considered the workshop to be ―very successful‖ and half considered the workshop to be ―fairly successful.‖ Participants agreed the activities were challenging yet engaging, and that the information presented in the two presentations on climate change were interesting and highly relevant. [...] Most of the participants considered the workshop successful 6 Scenario-Based Planning for a Changing Climate in the Bras d’Or Ecosystem – Workshop Report because of the participatory character of the exercises, opportunities for discussion with their group members and the overall methodological approaches. [...] We focused first on identifying the most important issues and challenges of the development in the region and then on the main drivers that are behind these issues and challenges.