Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Lobbying Overview: Eni exhibits strategic engagement with science-aligned climate policy, demonstrating both positive and negative positions. The company advocates for prolonging the role of fossil gas in the energy mix and retains memberships to industry associations that promote fossil fuel development.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Eni’s top-line messaging on climate policy is broadly positive, although the company emphasizes concerns related to economic competitiveness in its communications. In its April 2025 Annual Report, Eni stated support for the goals of the Paris Agreement and emissions reductions in line with a 2050 net-zero target. However, Eni often emphasizes the negative impacts of climate policy on economic development and industrial competitiveness. In its 2023 industry association review, published November 2024, it appeared to support the need for policies to respond to climate change, but advocated for the need for industrial competitiveness, technology neutrality, and market-based mechanisms in policy design. In its corporate disclosure webpage, accessed August 2025, Eni emphasized the protection of industrial competitiveness as a condition for its support for achieving net-zero by 2050. The company was also a signatory of the Antwerp Declaration in February 2024, which advocated against EU Green Deal policies, calling for an EU Industrial Deal to revise existing climate policy.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: Eni actively engages on several areas of climate policy in the EU with both supportive and oppositional positions. For example, on its advocacy webpage, accessed August 2025, Eni communicates support for an EU-wide law to reduce methane emissions from the energy sector, however, it calls for changes to the proposed EU Methane Regulation relating to compliance costs. By contrast, in April 2025, Eni signed a joint letter to EU Commissioners which advocated to significantly weaken several key elements of this regulation. Eni supported policies that incentivize the deployment of renewable energy in its November 2024 industry association review, and appears to support the ReFuelEU Aviation blending targets to increase the proportion of renewable fuels in the aviation fuel mix as per a May 2024 event webcast. The company engages on the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), demonstrating positive positions – such as supporting linking this with the UK ETS in a July 2025 consultation response – and positions with an unclear impact on the ETS’s overall ambition, such as advocacy on how it applies to maritime transport in July 2025 feedback.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Eni appears unsupportive of an energy transition in line with IPCC recommendations. The company consistently advocates for a long-term role for fossil gas in the energy mix, with ambiguous conditions around emissions abatement, including in its website, accessed August 2025. Eni has also called for increased extraction of fossil gas in Africa. For example, Ghana News Agency reported that Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi met with the president of Ghana in February 2025 to advocate for increased oil and gas exploration in the country. Eni calls for the adoption of hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) to decarbonize the energy mix, although it appears to promote these technologies to prolong fossil fuel use. In its industry association review, published in November 2024, Eni supported blue hydrogen production (fossil gas + CCS) in the near-term, while promoting green (renewable) hydrogen production in the long-term, although it emphasized concerns around the costs of the latter process. In October 2024, Eni advocated for a weaker definition of low-carbon hydrogen – includin the inclusion of incentives for fossil-based hydrogen – in feedback on the EU Hydrogen and Gas Decarbonization Package Delegated Act. Eni broadly supported policies to develop CCS in the hard-to-abate and power sectors in its website, accessed August 2025.
Industry Association Governance: Eni published an updated review of its industry association memberships in November 2024. The company’s assessment excludes one entity actively engaged on climate policy (the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China). The review lacks detail on each organization's climate policy positions and provides no details of how the company influences these positions. Eni retains membership to several industry associations in Europe that undertake obstructive climate policy advocacywhile promoting fossil fuel development. These include the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers and FuelsEurope, where Eni is represented at board level, and Eurogas, where an Eni senior executive is president.
A detailed assessment of the company's corporate review on climate policy engagement can be found on InfluenceMap's CA100+ Investor Hub here.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information, see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q3 2025.