The effectiveness of research in enhancing adaptive capacity can be problematic given the considerable socioeconomic barriers to adaptation at various scales and over which communities and researchers have limited influence.22, 84 Participants also expressed concern that CBA could establish adaptation as a local issue, and depoliticize structural determinants of adaptive capacity. This led some in the workshop to question the ethics of the adaptation/intervention framing of CBA projects, given the difficulty of achieving positive change in the short term or within the confines of funding cycles, and possibility of ‘over‐promising’ results or outcomes from projects.