Robust decision making (RDM) is a decision framework that inverts the analytical steps that are typical of traditional analytic methods and seeks to identify choices that are robust over many alternative views of the future. In this way, RDM reframes the question, asking, 'How can we choose actions today that will be consistent with our long-term interests?' This paper illustrates how RDM can help overcome many of the shortcomings of traditional approaches that make it difficult plan for climate change in developing countries.