Terrifying Climate Map Shows 3,000,000 Homes to Be Flooded by 2050

If Britain fails to meet its emissions targets, climate change may make your home unsellable in the next 30 years.

When the world's leaders meet in Glasgow next week for COP26, their climate change commitments will be front and centre.

Boris Johnson has already laid out his plan for the UK to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 in order to keep global warming to 1.5°C.

The public, on the other hand, is no stranger to governments failing to meet their climate change targets.

Several countries have already been chastised for failing to reach their commitments under the Paris Agreement, which were set more than five years ago.

If Downing Street's new goals are not met, one in every ten homes (3,066,318) in the country will face a new flood risk, according to location intelligence firm Gamma.

Heavy rain and increasing sea levels will not only imperil people but will also make houses unsellable if climate change continues unabated.

In 29 years, a third of all residences and commercial buildings in Great Yarmouth, for example, will most likely be flooded.

Similarly, by the same period, the number of properties in Portsmouth presently at risk of flooding will treble, putting one in every five residences at jeopardy.

Even locations far from the water, like Kensington and Chelsea, may expect an additional 14,000 properties to be flooded.

However, flooding isn't the only way that climate change could damage the UK: hotter, drier summers lead soil to dry unevenly, causing fissures in buildings.

A stunning 81 percent of residences in Swindon could be at risk of subsidence, up from 1% at the moment.

Downing Street's green strategy, according to the Treasury, will cost the country £1 trillion over the next 30 years.

"If we look at the green agenda, the transition broadly, we'll know that the cost of inaction actually could be more than actually doing things," said business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng on Times Radio.

"The economic opportunity, in terms of the transition, is huge and that’s what I’m focused on. ultimately, that’s what’s going to drive huge amounts of prosperity."