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VOICE OF COMMONS

Broadcasting from Venice – a city on the climate frontlines – Voice of Commons is a new podcast amplifying the voices of our Global Commons: Antarctica, the Ocean, the Atmosphere, and Outer Space. As we approach the 1.5°C threshold set by the Paris Agreement, destabilised Commons are triggering rising seas, mass displacement, and increasing ecological and geopolitical instability – yet they remain voiceless in global governance. They have no representation, no voice, and no vote in decisions shaping

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Soft Rain

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2025/11/06

Xiye Bastida — young climate justice leader, Indigenous advocate, co-founder of the Re-Earth Initiative, and Voice of Commons Ambassador — joins host Giulia Foscari for a galvanizing conversation broadcast from the Planetary Embassies in Venice and Chicago, marking the opening of the Chicago Architecture Biennale: SHIFT – Architecture in Times of Radical Change. Rooted in her name’s meaning, Soft Rain, Xiye reminds us that imagination is a form of resistance — and that change, like rain, can begin

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The hunger paradox

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/08/14

What is the vital link between food systems, world hunger and the Atmospheric Commons? In this episode of Voice of Commons, host Giulia Foscari speaks with Martin Frick, Director of the UN World Food Programme’s Global Office in Berlin and co-founder of COPx, about how the systems meant to nourish life are accelerating planetary collapse. With hundreds of millions suffering from extreme food deprivation, this conversation explores how hunger is driven by systemic failures across our Global Commons —

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59:37

Frozen Geopolitics

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/08/07

What futures are we failing to imagine for Antarctica? In this episode of Voice of Commons, host Giulia Foscari speaks with Klaus Dodds — geopolitical theorist, Antarctic scholar, and Voice of Commons Advisor — about the power of imagination in shaping geopolitics. Together, they explore how political imagination shapes territorial claims, environmental governance, and the legal ambiguity at the heart of the Antarctic Treaty. Recorded after the 47th ATCM in Milan, the episode also addresses marine

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40:54

Who Owns Outer Space?

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/07/31

Space is no longer the untouched frontier we once imagined. Crowded with satellites, threatened by debris, and on the verge of a new era of extraction, outer space faces a crisis of governance.OnInternational Moon Day,Voice of CommonshostGiulia Foscarispeaks withMichaelByers— Co-Director of the Outer Space Institute and author ofWho Owns Outer Space?— to explore the urgent legal and ethical dilemmas shaping the cosmos. Together, they unpack the risks of mega-constellations, uncontrolled rocket

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Live from the ATCM

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/07/21

Who speaks for Antarctica? And what’s at stake when 58 nations meet behind closed doors to decide its future? In this special edition of Voice of Commons, host Giulia Foscari takes you inside the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings (ATCM) –the once-a-year forum where the governance of the southernmost continent is shaped by consensus, on behalf of all humanity. Across two weeks of heated plenaries, quiet diplomacy, and unexpected alliances, we capture the pulse of this year’s negotiations

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Voice of Commons unveiled

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/06/27

For our 10th episode, Voice of Commons responds to questions from our listeners about the origins of the project and UNLESS. We share a special live conversation held during the vernissage of the Venice Biennale between architects Giulia Foscari and Eva Franch i Gilabert. The dialogue frames the urgency, structure, and ambition of Voice of Commons and explores the project’s multi-scalar planetary mobilisation from high-level advocacy to grassroots participation. They also reflect on the

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51:03

Abyss to Antarctica

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/06/19

What links the abyss of the deep sea to the southernmost ice shelves? Can open-source science protect Antarctica? And how urgent is the threat of deep-sea mining? In this episode of Voice of Commons host Giulia Foscari speaks with deep-sea biologist and polar explorer Antje Boetius. Broadcast just after the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice and ahead of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings in Milan, In this episode, we speak with her about the critical role of Antarctica as a planetary

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50:13

Turning the Tide

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/06/12

What if a race could help rewrite the rules of ocean governance? In this episode of Voice of Commons, broadcast from the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, host Giulia Foscari speaks with Richard Brisius, President of The Ocean Race, about how one of the world’s toughest sailing competitions has evolved into a platform for ocean science, literacy, and rights. Together, they explore the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the Ocean, the symbolism of the Nature’s Baton — recently passed by

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32:44

The Ocean Can't Wait

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/06/05

As the world gathers in Nice for the third United Nations Ocean Conference, Voice of Commons host Giulia Foscari sits down with Peter Thomson, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, for a wide-ranging and urgent conversation on the state of our blue Planet.From the long-awaited ratification of the High Seas Treaty to the global effort to achieve the 30x30 target, and the critical delivery of SDG14 — Life Below Water — this episode traces the decisions and alliances needed to

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45:20

Spaceship Earth

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/05/30

What can satellites teach us about the state of the planet — and the future of planetary governance? In this episode of Voice of Commons, host Giulia Foscari speaks with Simonetta Cheli –⁠ Director of Earth Observation at the European Space Agency (ESA), Head of ESA-ESRIN in Frascati and Advisor of Voice of Commons –⁠ about the power of satellites to monitor Earth’s systems and generate anticipatory intelligence. We explore the Copernicus programme, Digital Twins of the Earth, and the essential

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1:06:47

Rights of Nature

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/05/26

What if nature had legal rights?In this episode ofVoice of Commons, hostGiuliaFoscarispeaks with environmental lawyerCormacCullinan- founder of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and the Wild Law Institute - about rethinking legal systems to recognize nature as a rights-bearing entity. From the courtroom to the cryosphere, we explore how the Rights of Nature movement is reshaping global environmental governance, and what justice could look like for theGlobal Commons-including Antarctica,

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44:38

Planetary Governance Architecture

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/05/15

Christiana Figueres — former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, architect of the Paris Agreement, and internationally recognized Costa Rican climate leader — joins host Giulia Foscari for an urgent and inspiring conversation from Voice of Commons’ Planetary Embassy, in Venice. Together, they explore the architecture of planetary governance, the legacy and future of the Paris Agreement, and the bold shifts needed to safeguard the Global Commons ahead of COP30 in the Amazon. Drawing on her vision of

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46:39

Climate Justice

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/05/09

The climate crisis is a human rights crisis — and addressing it demands urgent, systemic change. South African activist Kumi Naidoo — President of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative and former Secretary-General of Greenpeace International and Amnesty International — joins host Giulia Foscari for a galvanizing conversation on justice, activism, and the future of our Global Commons. Reflecting on decades of campaigning, from standing up to apartheid to defending Antarctica and the

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45:48

The Ocean’s Voice

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/05/08

THE OCEAN'S VOICE A Call to Protect our Ocean Commons. "Her Deepness" Sylvia Earle — legendary oceanographer, President of Mission Blue, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, and Voice of Commons Ambassador — joins host Giulia Foscari for a powerful conversation from the Venice Biennale Vernissage. Drawing on thousands of hours beneath the Ocean surface, Sylvia transports us into a vibrant interspecies world to which we all belong, confronting the threats of overfishing, deep-sea

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47:31

Planetary Boundaries

VOICE OF COMMONS ·

2025/05/06

PLANETARY BOUNDARIES Securing a Safe and Just Operating Space for the Global Commons.In the inaugural episode of Voice of Commons, launched by UNLESS from the Planetary Embassy at the Venice Biennale, Earth system scientist and Voice of Commons Ambassador Johan Rockström joins host Giulia Foscari to explore the vital role of the Global Commons Antarctica, the Ocean, the Atmosphere, and Outer Space – in sustaining life on Earth. Johan reveals how crossing Planetary Boundaries and triggering Tipping

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