2025: From GREEN to BROWN?

In 2025 ESG Rewards and TALK&IN wore brown as a symbolic color, a reminder of the earth on which we live and on which we build our future. This was not an overcoming or abandonment of green, which in recent years has suffered from opposing extremes and sometimes hasty choices in which ideology prevailed over engineering, but rather a desire to seek a balanced perspective, based on a long-term vision and supported by objective data.

The 2025 edition of ESG Rewards, alongside the TALK&IN conference, held in Venice on May 26–27, continued to recognize tangible examples aligned with a more equitable model of capitalism, capable of reconciling long-term sustainable visions, including from an economic standpoint.

ESG Rewards highlights exemplary initiatives by identifying companies and individuals who have demonstrated concreteness and meaningful action across environmental, social, and advanced governance dimensions.

TALK&IN fosters the exchange of knowledge, growth, and awareness necessary to address future challenges, as a platform for insight and for identifying more effective pathways forward.

The 2025 TALK&IN conference addressed current and future geopolitical dynamics, innovations capable of generating tangible benefits, and approaches to transforming challenges into opportunities, placing particular emphasis on the relevance of the three sustainability dimensions embodied in the ESG framework: do they continue to represent a significant driver for finance and entrepreneurship?