Despite this being the “decisive decade,” we are rapidly approaching the 1.5°C threshold that the Paris Agreement warned we must not breach. Melting ice sheets, rising seas, acidifying oceans, and a destabilized atmosphere drive displacement, migration, and growing instability. These shifts bring cultural, economic, and physical loss – especially for the most vulnerable.
The Climate Crisis is both a Human Rights and Global Security crisis. Yet the Planet remains voiceless. Even our four Global Commons – Antarctica, the Ocean, the Atmosphere, and Outer Space – have no voice and are excluded from decisions that shape our collective future.
The Climate Crisis is both a Human Rights and Global Security crisis. Yet the Planet remains voiceless. Even our four Global Commons – Antarctica, the Ocean, the Atmosphere, and Outer Space – have no voice and are excluded from decisions that shape our collective future.
THE PLANETARY EMBASSY AT NIGHT. PHOTO © MELANIA DALLE GRAVE - DSL STUDIO
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Lying beyond national jurisdictions and belonging to humanity, these Commons form an interconnected ecological network essential to Earth's resilience and the well-being of future human generations and other living beings.
Each of the Global Commons is currently governed by separate and fragmented frameworks – from UNEP to UNCLOS, UNOOSA, and the Antarctic Treaty System. There is no unified, accountable mechanism that represents them collectively. Harming these Global Commons can thereby easily be treated as an “externality” without responsibility for damage caused.
Giving the Global Commons a united voice and agency, unlocks an unparalleled potential to develop and implement a safe, secure and just global governance model in the name of humanity and All-kind.
A Constituency for the Global Commons
We, the undersigned, come together to form a planetary Constituency for the Global Commons . United, we call for the creation of a Global Commons Assembly dedicated to representing these shared planetary systems and giving them a formal political and legal voice in global decision-making. The Global Commons Assembly is not intended to compete with existing frameworks nor replace them, rather to provide an integrated space that connects policy with science, local and Indigenous knowledge, and vulnerable communities across domains.
- Antarctica, holding 90% of the world’s ice, is nearing a tipping point that could trigger catastrophic sea-level rise, threatening the very existence of island and coastal nations.
- The Ocean, covering 70% of the planet and absorbing 25% of anthropogenic CO₂, is acidifying under relentless warming, enduring pollution, losing biodiversity and its capacity to regulate the climate.
- The Atmosphere, now burdened with over 424 ppm of CO₂, reflects a system pushed beyond safe Planetary Boundaries, with consequences that magnify social and environmental inequalities.
- Outer Space, once a realm of shared wonder and peaceful cooperation, mirrors Earth’s legacy of extraction, competition and control.
Each of the Global Commons is currently governed by separate and fragmented frameworks – from UNEP to UNCLOS, UNOOSA, and the Antarctic Treaty System. There is no unified, accountable mechanism that represents them collectively. Harming these Global Commons can thereby easily be treated as an “externality” without responsibility for damage caused.
Giving the Global Commons a united voice and agency, unlocks an unparalleled potential to develop and implement a safe, secure and just global governance model in the name of humanity and All-kind.
A Constituency for the Global Commons
We, the undersigned, come together to form a planetary Constituency for the Global Commons . United, we call for the creation of a Global Commons Assembly dedicated to representing these shared planetary systems and giving them a formal political and legal voice in global decision-making. The Global Commons Assembly is not intended to compete with existing frameworks nor replace them, rather to provide an integrated space that connects policy with science, local and Indigenous knowledge, and vulnerable communities across domains.