After a flash flood that sent dead rats floating through the streets of Copenhagen, the city began reimagining itself. Away from concrete and asphalt and towards softer, “spongier” settlements that work with the natural flow of the water cycle. With cloudbursts increasing in intensity because of climate change, many cities from Beijing to Chennai are trying this too - and Copenhagen offers some good lessons.

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Credits:
Reporter: Aditi Rajagopal
Camera: Omkar Phatak
Video Editor: Aditi Rajagopal
Animation: William Bryan
Supervising Editor: Michael Trobridge
Factcheck: Kirsten Funk
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Interviewees:
Jan Rasmussen, director, Cloudburst Management Plan
Jes Clouson-Kaas, project manager, HOFOR

Read More
All about the cloudburst management plan: https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/e...
Lessons from Copenhagen: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10....

Chapters:
00:01 Intro
00:52 Hidden in plain sight
03:01 The heart of future Copenhagen
05:37 Machine cities to sponge cities
07:24 Flooding children's parks
08:49 The numbers
09:40 Mitigation before adaptation