VOICE OF COMMONS

Thirteen years old. Third COP. Already planting the future. On Day 4 at COP30 in Belém, Voice of Commons host Giulia Foscari meets Prasiddhi Singh , the youngest delegate in the negotiations — and one of the clearest voices in the room. Raised in Tamil Nadu in India, a region shaped by cyclones, drought, air pollution, and rising seas, Prasiddhi traces her journey back to Cyclone Vardah, when at j...

“Linear change is no longer an option.” Sandrine Dixson-Declève — a force of nature, Honorary President of The Club of Rome and Executive Chair of Earth4All — delivers a message that cuts through complacency as she joins Voice of Commons host Giulia Foscari at COP30 in Belém, fresh from a charged conversation at the Planetary Science Pavilion, co-led with Johan Rockström on “safe, just, and system...

How close is the Amazon to a point of no return? In this Atmosphere Commons episode of Voice of Commons, host Giulia Foscari speaks with climatologist Carlos Nobre — IPCC author and co-chair of the Science Panel for the Amazon — as the world races toward COP30 in Belém . Nobre warns that deforestation and global heating are driving the forest toward a tipping point beyond which it could colla...

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...

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 depri...

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...

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. On  International Moon Day ,  Voice of Commons  host  Giulia Foscari  speaks with  Michael Byers  — Co-Director of the Outer Space Institute and author of  Who O...

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...

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...

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 Meet...

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 Cha...

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, an...

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 anticipato...

What if nature had legal rights?  In this episode of  Voice of Commons , host  Giulia Foscari  speaks with environmental lawyer  Cormac Cullinan  - 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...

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 bol...

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....

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 in...

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 Spa...