Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Lobbying Overview: Eni supports climate action and emission reductions in its top-line communications, however, the company appears to advocate to weaken climate-related legislation and advocates for the long-term role for fossil gas in the energy mix. Eni retains memberships to industry associations promoting fossil fuels.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Eni’s top-line messaging on climate policy is broadly positive. In its May 2024 Just Transition Report, Eni stated support for the goals of the Paris Agreement and meeting net zero emissions by 2050. In the same report, the company stated support for cost-efficient carbon pricing mechanisms. In its 2023 industry association review, published November 2024, it appeared to support the need for policies to respond to climate change, but emphasized industrial competitiveness, technology neutrality, and market mechanisms requirements. The company was 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 and emphasizing competitiveness.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: Eni has been actively engaged on several areas of climate policy in the EU in the last two years. The company often states top-level support for policies, but advocates to weaken key technical elements.
Eni appears to support 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 at a May 2024 event webcast. However, Eni demonstrated a mixture of positive and negative positions on the EU Electricity Market Design: the company supported the incorporation of financial measures to incentivize the deployment of renewable energy in May 2023 comments, but also advocated for weakening reforms in February 2023 comments calling for the inclusion of fossil gas and other low-carbon gases.
Eni demonstrates a mixture of positions on GHG emissions regulation. On its advocacy webpage, accessed April 2025, Eni communicates support for an EU-wide law to reduce methane emissions from the energy sector but advocates for changes to the proposed EU Methane Regulation relating to compliance costs. Comparably, in its September 2024 Methane Report, the company reports supporting the EU Methane Regulation for the energy sector.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Eni’s position on the energy transition appears to be predominantly negative, as it continues to promote a continued role for fossil fuels in the energy mix alongside other technologies such as hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS). The company has consistently advocated for the role of fossil gas in the energy transition without clear conditions around emissions abatement, including in its advocacy website, accessed April 2025. Eni has also called for increased extraction of fossil gas in the African continent. 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 supports a role for hydrogen in the energy mix, with some ambiguity around the need to decarbonize production method. In its industry association review, published in November 2024, Eni supported hydrogen production using fossil fuels with CCS in the near-term, followed by hydrogen produced from renewable energy in the long-term with concerns around the costs of the process. In October 2024, Eni advocated for a weaker definition of low-carbon hydrogen in feedback on the EU Hydrogen and Gas Decarbonization Package Delegated Act.
Eni supports the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a decarbonization tool, but it is unclear if this is aligned with IPCC guidelines as the company does not emphasize the need for a reduction in fossil fuels alongside CCS use. For example, in its advocacy website, accessed April 2025, Eni states support for policies to develop CCS in the hard-to-abate and power sectors. The company also supported the EU’s Industrial Carbon Management policy for CCU/S technologies in August 2023 comments, but advocated for its usage in the heating sector alongside industry and power.
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, and also lacks detail on each organization's climate change policy positions, with no details of how the company influences these positions. Eni retains membership to various industry associations in Europe that are advocating negatively on climate change policy while promoting the long-term role for oil and gas in the energy mix. 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 Q1 2025.