The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), a multibillion dollar project authorized to “restore, preserve, and protect the South Florida ecosystem, while providing for other waterrelated needs of the region, including water supply and flood protection,” was planned with a much more limited understanding of climate change than we have today. CERP was based on the concept of climate “stationarity,” which assumes the climate will not change appreciably in the future. We now know that this is not a realistic or safe assumption. Current Everglades restoration plans, therefore, are likely inadequate for future conditions. As Everglades restoration continues to advance over the next few decades, the success of restoration and management efforts will increasingly depend on incorporating understanding of climate change into future planning, implementation and operation of projects.