The claim made in this paper is that its critical ANT approach offers a way to study the integration of climate change adaptation (CCA) in public organizations that is more perceptive to both non-human elements and to marginalized concerns, as compared to previous research on CCA. More specifically, the approach illuminates two key aspects currently neglected in the literature on CCA, namely: (i) the challenges of translation posed by both human and non-human actants, and (ii) the care (or not) for marginalized concerns in CCA performativity, viewed from a ‘matters of care’ perspective. A preliminary empirical study on the integration of CCA in physical planning in four Swedish municipalities will be used to illustrate the importance of these two factors. The selected municipalities exemplify different regional spaces, primarily regarding population density and population size. The rationale behind this case selection strategy is to capture a diversity of translation strategies and challenges facing the municipalities’ when attempting integrate CCA in their organization. But why is the study focusing on Swedish municipalities? There are two primary reasons for this. First, this is a field marked by uncertainties as to how CCA should be translated into the municipal organization. That is, on the one hand, municipalities’ are supposed to carry out the bulk of CCA, in particular in physical planning. On the other hand, the integration of CCA is marked by several uncertainties due to e.g. unclear distribution of responsibilities, ambiguous legislation, and uncertainties regarding the support from the national government. In other words, CCA is supposed to be integrated in the municipal organizations but the process of translation is uncertain and not yet stabilized in many of them. Their integration of CCA thus provides opportunity to study the formation of a new field of translation and the challenges facing this process. Second, in some policy documents and Swedish public investigations, there are expectations that CCA will contribute to rearranging social-ecological relations in a more sustainable fashion. At the same time there is research on CCA arguing that it is primarily focusing on technical fixes, not measures to manage the root causes of the climate issue, such as social and behavioral factors, institutional factors etcetera. This tension makes it interesting to examine from the perspective of ‘matters of care’.