International Partnerships

UN Global Compact

World Food Programme
Eni is starting a cooperation with the WFP that begun with the support to the 2010 fundraising Christmas Concert for Pakistan, organized by the Italian Committee for the WFP.  In parallel, Eni has organized two employee engagement operations to support the communities of the Pakistani and Italian colleagues deceased  in the plane crash in Pakistan in November 2010. The funds for Pakistan were collected via the WFP.

UNDP
By joining  the Columbia University Earth Institute Corporate Circle, Eni once more confirms its commitment to operate  within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals. Among the projects of the Earth Institute in support of the MDGs is the Millennium Villages Project, a partnership between the Earth Institute, UNDP, Millennium Promise, governments and local communities.
In the past, Eni has cooperated  with UNDP in Pakistan on a reforestation and biodiversity recovery programme  in the area adjacent to the Bhit gas field

UNICEF
Eni has worked with UNICEF on a series of initiatives, the most recent concluded in 2007.  Eni was involved in Azerbaijan (1999-2001) for a project for the revitalisation of basic healthcare services; in Indonesia  donated funds to help children affected by the December 2004 tsunami and in Nigeria (2003-2005 and 2006-2007), cooperated to prevent the spread of the HIV virus from mother to child in the states of Bayelsa and River.

WHO
Eni had various cooperation experiences with the WHO, for example, the  involvement in the"Roll Back Malaria" programme (see the item "Roll Back Malaria" below). It worked together with the WHO for setting up two professional training centres for women and girls from villages in the area of the Bhit gas field in Pakistan,  and, in Congo, in 2009, Eni and WHO provided medical and health kits (medicines, para-pharmaceuticals, vaccines and other healthcare supplies) to meet the healthcare needs of some 90,000 people for three months and water disinfectant kits for the prevention of cholera.

UNHCR
From 2000 to 2002, Eni collaborated with the UNHCR in Azerbaijan on a programme for evacuees and refugees from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict (in cooperation with Relief International and the International Rescue Committee).

Roll Back Malaria
Roll Back Malaria has been created in 1998 as partnership between the WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank, governments, the private sector, the research community and other stakeholders to implement coordinated actions against malaria.
Eni has cooperated within the partnership framework in Azerbaijan from 1999 to 2001 and in Nigeria (Bayelsa State) in 2003 through a malaria prevention programme, as part of a national plan in the fight against malaria, involving some 4,000 people.

ILO
Eni and its companies recognise the principles outlined in the Fundamental Conventions of the ILO with particular regard to:
- the right of association and negotiation (ILO Convention nos. 87 and 98);
- the prohibition of forced labour del (ILO Convention nos. 29 and 105)
- the prohibition of child labour (ILO Convention nos. 138 and 182)
- the prohibition of job discrimination (ILO Convention nos. 100 e 111).
- the prohibition of discrimination of labour representative (ILO Convention no.135)
- the continuous search for improvements in conditions of health and safety in the workplace

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is an organisation with its headquarters in Geneva that was created ahead of the first World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio (1992) with the aim of supporting the private sector in pursuing economic growth through the identification of pathways for sustainable development. Around 200 multinational companies currently adhere to the council.
The association was originally known as the Business Council for Sustainable Development, subsequently, following its merger with the World Industry Council on the Environment, it became the WBCSD. Eni has been a part of this association from the beginning of the BCSD and, since 2007, has been a member of the WBCSD.
The aims of the WBCSD are:

• The involvement of the private sector in the definition of sustainability policies and standards providing a framework of reference for companies;
• The sharing of best practice in the area of sustainable development.

Within the context of these objectives, the WBCSD has projects in four spheres of competence or Focus Areas:
1. Business Role: To extend the debate about the role of business in society and how the private sector can contribute to the definition of policies for sustainable development.
2. Development: In this area WBCSD aims to speak for the business community and study solutions and measure the impact of its development activities, encourage the creation of partnerships and the use of tools to facilitate local and global development, in line with the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
3. Ecosystem: This area is concerned with the protection and conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity, ecosystemic services and the management of ecosystems.
4. Energy & Climate: In this sphere, the WBCSD publishes data and trends on the impact of business on climate, on the solutions to be adopted to fight climate change and energy strategies for the private sector. It also conducts activities for the definition of long-term policies and objectives, publishes reports and case studies, etc.

Eni is actively involved in the work of the WBCSD.

In the Development Focus Area, the company is part of the National Market Participation Initiative: in fact, part of the strategy of relations with countries in which Eni operates is playing an active role in the creation and consolidation of the drivers of socio-economic growth, firstly through the development of local skills and expertise.

In this context, Eni is involved in a project to facilitate effective dialogue between corporations and governments, define policies, good practices and, in some cases, also common action to encourage competition in the local private sector.
Consistent with a commitment to minimise the potential negative impact of its production cycle and to maximise opportunities to contribute to the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystemic services, Eni is also involved in the project of the Ecosystem Focus Area, Ecosystems Valuation Initiative (EVI), for the preparation of guidelines aimed at quantitatively determining the value of ecosystems.

In 2010, a representative from Eni was among the 30 participants in the Future Leaders Team, an annual programme aimed at preparing within the private sector the future leaders for sustainability. The issue addressed in 2010 was: "Vision 2050: The new agenda for business", a programmatic document that defines the evolving scenario from the present to 2050 form the perspective of sustainable development and identifying opportunities for the business world originating from a number of priorities to ensure business and sustainability objectives to 2050.

Finally, through the Energy and Climate Focus Area, Eni accredited its own delegates for the climate negotiations of the UNFCCC in Copenhagen in 2009 (COP XV) and Cancùn in 2010 (COP XVI).

On 25 June 2010, during the Global Compact Leaders Summit Eni and the Earth Institute announced an agreement to collaborate within the programme focused on businesses:  the Corporate Circle. The partnership is aimed at defining and implementing sustainable development plans and concrete projects, with a special focus on developing countries, especially in Africa.

Founded at Columbia University and directed by Jeffrey D. Sachs, the Institute attempts to involve companies engaged in sustainable development programmes in projects aimed at achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals.

There are different ways in which companies can adhere to the Corporate Circle: of these, Eni has chosen the Strategic Partnership, which foresees involvement in workshops, access to studies and analysis still in progress  and cooperation with experts from the Earth Institute for projects and initiatives such as the drafting of the publication on Sustainability eni for development.

The partnership between Eni and the Earth Institute has been initially focused on the activites carried out by the Vale Columbia Center, a research center jointly run by the Earth Institute and the Columbia University Law School which aims at establishing itself as a leader institution for issues related to foreign direct investment with a special focus on the extractive industry.

Eni is committed to supporting the Center in guaranteeing that the resources generated by foreign direct investment are harnessed to promote sustainability projects in line with the Governments' development strategies and aimed at achieving the Millenium Development Goals. Eni's support has contributed to the realization of an extensive study of the potential links between the investments of the international extractive industry in Mozambique and local development opportunities (Resource-Based Sustainable Development in the Lower Zambezi Basin).

The appointment of Eni CEO, Paolo Scaroni, as member of theVale Columbia Center's Advisory Board testifies to the company's strong commitment to this aim.

In view of the results achieved by their collaboration, Eni and The Earth Institute have decided to renew their partnership, extending until 2012 participation in the Corporate Circle. This is a great opportunity to develop and implement innovative projects that can expand Eni's contribution to the sustainable development of territories in which it operates.

Among the areas to be addressed in the near future, of particular note is the fine-tuning of new tools to measure Eni's contribution to the wellbeing of local communities and the definition of innovative solutions to promote local development by encouraging and facilitating access to modern energy services (the so-called "energy-led development" approach). In this area Eni will provide its experience and contribution to combating the so-called "electricity poverty" through the supply of electricity generated from previously flared gas. In fact, supplying energy for development is a central element in Eni's cooperation model, with projects that have already been launched in Nigeria and Congo.