Rising sea levels will put 1.5m properties at risk of coastal flooding while those threatened by coastal erosion will rise almost 15 times by 2085 compared with today, the Committee on Climate Change has warned.
A report by the CCC found that it would be uneconomical to protect about 1,600km of coast — or 29 per cent of the English coastline — if sea levels rose by an expected 1 metre by the end of this century.
“There are a lot of places where it is going to not be affordable to protect them in future,” said Professor Jim Hall, a lead author of the report, which was released on Friday by the CCC, an independent government panel.
