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 our collective future. Voice of Commons aims to change that.
Launched as a Special Project of La Biennale di Venezia and led by architect and activist Giulia Foscari, founder of UNLESS, Voice of Commons challenges existing governance models by building a transdisciplinary platform at the intersection of art, science, policy, and technology. Through conversations hosted by Giulia Foscari with global changemakers – from Sylvia Earle to Christiana Figueres, Johan Rockström, and Kumi Naidoo – the podcast fosters Global Commons literacy, sparks imagination for just and sustainable futures, and calls to action for intergenerational justice.
Part of a broader global advocacy initiative, the podcast is joined by the Speak-Up for the Commons campaign – inviting grassroots participation – and a Petition calling for the legal and political recognition of the Commons and the establishment of a Global Commons Assembly.
All are catalysed from the Voice of Commons’ Planetary Embassy in Venice, where each day representatives from Indigenous communities, nation-states, or stateless nations take the stage to lend their voices to the Commons – building, together, a planetary Constituency to ensure a safe and operating space on Planet Earth for All-kind.
Hosted by Giulia Foscari.
Broadcast from the Voice of Commons’ Planetary Embassy, in Venice.
Voice of Commons, a project by the agency for change UNLESS.
Launched as a Special Project of the 19th Venice Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, under the Patronage of UNESCO, with the recognition of The European Space Agency and endorsed by United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
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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 our collective future. Voice of Commons aims to change that.
Launched as a Special Project of La Biennale di Venezia and led by architect and activist Giulia Foscari, founder of UNLESS, Voice of Commons challenges existing governance models by building a transdisciplinary platform at the intersection of art, science, policy, and technology. Through conversations hosted by Giulia Foscari with global changemakers – from Sylvia Earle to Christiana Figueres, Johan Rockström, and Kumi Naidoo – the podcast fosters Global Commons literacy, sparks imagination for just and sustainable futures, and calls to action for intergenerational justice.
Part of a broader global advocacy initiative, the podcast is joined by the Speak-Up for the Commons campaign – inviting grassroots participation – and a Petition calling for the legal and political recognition of the Commons and the establishment of a Global Commons Assembly.
All are catalysed from the Voice of Commons’ Planetary Embassy in Venice, where each day representatives from Indigenous communities, nation-states, or stateless nations take the stage to lend their voices to the Commons – building, together, a planetary Constituency to ensure a safe and operating space on Planet Earth for All-kind.
Hosted by Giulia Foscari.
Broadcast from the Voice of Commons’ Planetary Embassy, in Venice.
Voice of Commons, a project by the agency for change UNLESS.
Launched as a Special Project of the 19th Venice Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, under the Patronage of UNESCO, with the recognition of The European Space Agency and endorsed by United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 — from a destabilised Atmosphere to degraded land and collapsing Ocean. Recorded at the Planetary Embassy in Venice, Frick calls for a mandatory global food transformation grounded in regenerative agriculture. A powerful call to rethink governance — and our role as stewards of life.
Martin Frick is a climate diplomat and systems thinker. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Club of Rome, Director of the UN World Food Programme’s Global Office in Berlin, and co-founder of COPx. As Senior Director of UN Climate Change (UNFCCC), he oversaw the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the Secretariat’s global Climate Action work. Frick was the EU’s lead negotiator in the creation of the UN Human Rights Council and later helped establish the UN’s sustainability hub in Bonn.
He is a member of the Advisory Council of Voice of Commons, and was born at 324 parts per million carbon dioxide in the Atmosphere.
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