The Marshall Islands is planning to rise above rising sea level.

“Raising our islands is a daunting task but one that must be done,” President Hilda Heine told Marshall Islands Journal, according to RNZ Pacific.

“We need the political will, and especially traditional leaders’ commitment, to see this through. That is why a national dialogue is planned to bring all the parties together.”

The atoll nation of about 75,000 people, located between Hawaii and the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean, only sits 6.5 feet above sea level.

Along with three three atoll nations — Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Maldives — the Marshall Islands is considered the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Chief Secretary Ben Graham said raising the islands is the nation’s only hope for survival. The effort is now considered the “centerpiece” of its climate response, per RNZ Pacific.

A study published in Science Advances in April warned that sea level rise could render these nations uninhabitable by 2050. Further, as flooding becomes more frequent, ocean water could contaminate its aquifers, leaving the nation without fresh water by 2030.

“Their voice will be stronger if they are united in this effort,” said Heine.

“The world is yet to grasp the scale of the transformation required for adaptation and we have not gotten very far in implementing adaptation plans and policies.”

It’s not the first government to suggest physically raising its land. Newport Beach in California has a plan to raise homes, roads and a seawall by 2050. And Miami is also raising its roads to combat sea level rise.

However, the Marshall Islands has nowhere near the budget of either California or Miami and is relying on donors and partnerships to help fund the eventual project.

At a climate change convention in July, one scientist suggested dredging and reclaiming land, saying that even though the process is costly and environmentally damaging, he’d rather see some destroyed reef than “see an entire culture go extinct,” according to National Geographic.

“We are the only nations in the world who now face real prospects of being completely wiped off the map,” said Graham. “So we need accelerated support for adaptation from our major partners.”

The Marshall Islands, which were instrumental in drafting the Paris agreement, has long been at the forefront of urging countries to act in combatting climate change.

Heine was especially disappointed when President Trump pulled out of the Paris agreement and urged European Union leaders to help convince him of its urgency. The US conducted nuclear tests in the country between 1946 and 1958 and still operates a missile installation on one of the atolls.