22 Jan 2018

Coastal properties may lose insurance

From Afternoons, 1:42 pm on 22 January 2018
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Photo: Belinda Storey

There may come a day when your coastal property is refused insurance because of the high-risk of storm damage and erosion due to rising sea-levels.

Belinda Storey is a climate economist from Climate Sigma. She talks to Jesse about how it's a matter of when not if insurance companies will stop insuring coastal properties and she's working on a formula to predict this.

 

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