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.
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 turn international commitments into real protection for the Ocean. Recorded from the Planetary Embassy in Venice, the dialogue navigates the science-policy interface, the architecture of enforceable governance, and the moral imperative of ocean justice — underscoring what success at UNOC must mean for frontline communities facing sea-level rise, acidification, and ecological collapse. From equity for Small Island Developing States to the need for systemic transformation, this is a vital listen on the coalitions that could still turn the tide.
🌊 Stay tuned until the end, as Ambassador Peter Thomson shares the books and poems that have shaped and inspired his lifelong relationship with the Ocean — a personal reflection for the next generation of Ocean stewards.
At UNLESS we take the opportunity to thank the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development for endorsing Voice of Commons as a Decade Activity!
Peter Thomson is a Fijian diplomat who is currently serving as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, the first person to be appointed to this position. He held the office of President of the General Assembly of the United Nations (2016-1017); he was Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the UN (2010-2016), President of the Assembly of the Institute Seabed Authority’s in 2011, and President of the Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS (2014-2015). He co-chairs the World Economic Forum’s Friends of Ocean Action and supports the High-Level Panel for Sustainable Ocean Economy, and is an officer of the Order of Fiji. Peter Thomson was born at 310 parts per million carbon dioxide in the Atmosphere.
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LISTEN FROM VENICE, FROM ORBIT, AND BEYOND.
Sign the Petition voice-of-commons.org/petition
Speak Up for the Commons by submitting voice-of-commons.org/speakup
For more information voice-of-commons.org
Follow us on IG @una_unless
Write to us unless@una-unless.org
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