Coastal properties may lose insurance

Jan 23, 2018

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 who works with Motu on the Deep South National Science Challenge. She talks to Jesse Mulligan of RNZ 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. Read more...