{"id":52546,"date":"2022-06-29T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/?p=52546"},"modified":"2022-07-07T14:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T12:32:26","slug":"time-to-turn-the-tide-tishka-francis-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/time-to-turn-the-tide-tishka-francis-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to turn the tide &#8211; Tishka Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-52552 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/06\/ocean2020about-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lisbon Ocean Conference 2022\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/06\/ocean2020about-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/06\/ocean2020about-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/06\/ocean2020about-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/06\/ocean2020about-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/06\/ocean2020about-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/06\/ocean2020about-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/06\/ocean2020about-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/06\/ocean2020about-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/06\/ocean2020about-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/06\/ocean2020about-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/06\/ocean2020about.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Small Island Developing States<\/strong> (SIDS) control some 30% of all oceans and seas through their Exclusive Economic Zones. Their economies and livelihoods are heavily reliant on the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>But rising sea levels are threatening the very existence of some <strong>SIDS<\/strong>. A single weather event could wipe away decades of development gains in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, <strong>Tishka Francis<\/strong>, <strong>Head of the SIDS Unit at the UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries<\/strong>, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS), shares how SIDS are facing many challenges, but are also full of opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>At the upcoming <strong>UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon<\/strong>, Tishka Francis will be calling for greater support and partnerships for these \u201c<em>stewards of vast and important ocean spaces<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>An interview by Miranda Alexander-Webber.<\/p>\n<p>Duration: 13:29 min<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1296580495&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"UN Brussels\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-376619335-326580331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN Brussels<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Time To Turn The Tide - Tishka Francis\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-376619335-326580331\/time-to-turn-the-tide-tishka-francis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time To Turn The Tide &#8211; Tishka Francis<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Island Developing States (SIDS) control some 30% of all oceans and seas through their Exclusive Economic Zones. Their economies and livelihoods are heavily reliant on the ocean. But rising sea levels are threatening the very existence of some SIDS. A single weather event could wipe away decades of development gains in a matter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}