The Finish public broadcaster YLE is producing a series of international reportages about climate change to be broadcasted and published during the Paris Climate Summit 2015.
Foreign YLE correspondent Maria Tolsa also visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch cope with the changing climate. She visits a ‘Room for the River’ location in the Dutch delta where land is prepared for flooding and farms and houses were put on higher grounds. After years of fighting the water, the Dutch decided to give water room and create space that can be flooded.
Maria Tolsa walks along with the Climate Miles walk to Paris organised by the Dutch environmental pressure group Urgenda and interviews founder Marjan Minnesma. On the Dutch island Texel a reportage is produced about potatoes that can be cultivated with salt water and in Rotterdam she covers the efforts that are made to handle the increasing rainfall. In the harbour city Maria visits a so called water square that can function as a water storage during heavy rainfall and she visits a farm on a rooftop that promotes the development of green rooftops because they retain rain water, promote bio diversity and keep the city cooler.
Maria Tolsa also interviews Dutch flood expert and special envoy to the United Nations Henk Ovink and visits the famous Maeslandt dam, that protects the harbour and the centre of Rotterdam.
For these reportages Featurez gave advice, did the research, setup and planning and accompanied the filming and did translations.