The Norfolk Broads will be lost to the sea, the head of the Environment Agency has said

Lady Young warned that the one metre of sea level rise predicted by climate change scientists this century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise would put £130 billion worth of coastal property at risk. There would be "difficult decisions" for some communities in the path of the sea, she warned.


"I think the Norfolk Broads will go. They will definitely salinate," she told a conference on climate change organised by the Agency.

Lady Young's warning came after research commissioned by Natural England, the Government's conservation advisers, showed that 25 square miles of Norfolk, including six villages, could be lost to the sea within a century.