Bonn, Germany: Fiji plans to move more than 40 villages to higher ground to escape coastal floods and is also working on ways to help future migrants from other Pacific island nations as sea levels rise, Fiji's attorney general said.

Fiji, presiding at negotiations among 200 nations in Germany on ways to strengthen action to curb climate change that is melting ice from the Alps to the Andes, is working to resolve issues such as land rights and citizenship.

Twelve-year-old Timoci Naulusala, from Fiji, delivers his nation's plea to the 23rd COP in Bonn on Wednesday. Credit:AP

"We have had to relocate people to higher ground - we have moved three villages to higher ground and there are another 43 that are earmarked," Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said during the two-week talks that end on Friday.

The first was Vunidogoloa, a village on Fiji's second-largest island, Vanua Levu, where 26 homes were moved in 2012, he said. Apart from homes, authorities are also moving graves as settlements are moved inland.