‘No safe place’: Kiribati seeks donors to raise islands from encroaching seas

The Pacific state of Kiribati has a very specific and unusual demand – that its islands be physically raised up to escape the encroaching seas. The plan to dig up huge clumps of sand and rocks from the seabed and layer them upon the thin coral atolls that make up Kiribati's sparse landmass will cost "in the billions" of dollars, the country's president Taneti Maamau told the Guardian...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/18/cop27-kiribati-donors-raise-islands-sea-level-rise