In CALS 503, Climate Risk Management I chose to study the City of Sault Ste Marie’s Climate Risk Assessment, completed in 2020. The assessment was hosted by the Climate Risk Institute as part of the Northern Climate Change Network risk assessment workshops and was meant to be an “initial stage in developing a climate change risk management or adaptation plan” for the City (Sault Ste. Marie, 2020, p.35).  A total of two workshops took place, with the purpose of developing risk and climate scenarios to examine “intersections between climate-related risks” in the first workshop, and ranking/prioritizing these risks in the second workshop by assessing the likelihood and consequences of each risk (Sault Ste. Marie, 2020, p.34). The assessment utilized a top-down approach and “semi-quantitative” methodology (Sault Ste. Marie, 2020, p.34). What was particularly interesting, was the...