An international forum to rethink the planet’s future: the global platform conceived by Riccardo Luna for dialogue on climate change is born in Venice
From June 3 to 8, 2025, Venice becomes a sustainability laboratory for the first edition of Venice Climate Week. Six days, seven locations, over one hundred speakers from around the world: the event, broadcast live on Ansa.it and SkyTg24, will take place at various Venetian venues: after the launch conference at the Salone Nautico, meetings will be held at the Corderie della Biennale, at Ca’ Foscari and IUAV Universities, at Ocean Space, at the Procuratie Vecchie in Piazza San Marco, at the new SEA BEYOND Ocean Literacy Centre, the first ocean education center in Italy developed by Prada Group and CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati on the island of San Servolo, the M9 Museum and Casa Sanlorenzo, the new art and culture center designed by Piero Lissoni and conceived by Sanlorenzo Yacht.
100 international speakers for the initiative conceived and directed by Riccardo Luna, Italian journalist and innovator and first director of Wired, in collaboration with the Future Food Institute, an international ecosystem founded by Sara Roversi to address the major challenges of the global food system.
Young people share the dialogue with climate: the Climate Shapers project involves selected students trained in a climate education program, who will follow the proceedings as facilitators and speakers, contributing to the collective narrative of the week.
Among the speakers are Jeremy Rifkin, who opens the conversations with a keynote lecture entitled Planet Aqua, Carlo Ratti, curator of the 2025 Architecture Biennale, Guendalina Salimei, curator of the Italian Pavilion, Luca Mercalli, Antonio Scurati, Federico Marchetti, Francesca Santoro, Stefano Micelli, Giovanna Melandri,
The project’s launch press conference will be held at the Arsenale in Venice, during the Salone Nautico, aboard Almax Sanlorenzo, the first zero-emission superyacht equipped with a green methanol Reformer Fuel Cell, capable of powering onboard services with zero emissions.
The event is supported by a network of partners that includes international institutions, universities, foundations, companies, and environmental organizations such as UNESCO-COI, NATIVA, Marevivo, WWF, Ocean Space, Prada Group, The Human Safety Net Foundation, Venice Sustainability Foundation, Legambiente, Veneto Region, and the Municipality of Venice.
The complete program is available at www.veniceclimateweek.org
Article by Laura Scarpa, photos Casa Sanlorenzo by Andrea Garuti.
