Fascinating stuff. why copenhagen and miami? how did they get together, and are there similarities to the kinds of challenges they re facing? there are. copenhagen is a mecca for american cities trying to figure out how to go green. both copenhagen and miami beach face sea level rise and flooding. copenhagen had really bad floods in 20111, 2012. and miami beach has something called sunny day flooding where even on a sunny day the water will come up through the porous limestone. they ve worked together, miami beach is learning from copenhagen about how to become more climate resilience. one of the things miami beach is doing is lifting half of its streets two feet up to get away from sea-level rise. by the end of the decade, it s predicted that sea levels will rise as much as ten inches in miami beach. they re also building sea walls.