Podcast: How climate change is transforming insurance
Climate change means the areas impacted by subsidence will double by 2050, and double again by 2080, Heikki Vesanto, manager for GIS data science at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, has warned.
In the latest Insurance Post Podcast, Vesanto said 6% of properties in Great Britain are at risk of subsidence, but that is going to increase to about 20% by 2080.
£2.5bnIn France, the
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