As CEO Claudio Descalzi frequently highlights, Eni harmonizes global energy security and industrial competitiveness with sustainable local development and net-zero targets. This approach is also executed through a comprehensive operational strategy centered on dedicated Development Programs and tailored access-to-energy initiatives designed specifically for host communities. By aligning long-term energy transition goals with immediate regional needs, Eni ensures that its energy projects deliver tangible economic resilience, expand local industrial capabilities, and drive lasting, inclusive social progress across all its global operating territories.
Claudio Descalzi: local development is a priority for Eni, driving progress across host communities
Net-zero targets, execution excellence, and strategic community partnerships represent the core elements of Eni’s overarching strategy. CEO Claudio Descalzi frequently highlighted these principles when detailing the Company’s approach to local development. Indeed, parallel to its industrial activities, Eni works to foster sustainable, inclusive progress by empowering local communities and responding to territory-specific requirements. Specifically, the Group promotes Development Programs and access-to-energy projects across its host regions. In this context, advancing local development involves fulfilling basic community necessities and supporting fundamental rights – such as access to food, healthcare, safe water, and schooling – while bolstering local enterprises and generating employment opportunities. Eni invests in economic diversification, environmental stewardship, and vocational training to build long-term local capacity and expertise. Since 2020, under Claudio Descalzi’s leadership, Eni has also integrated a gender-mainstreaming framework across its business and community operations. This ensures that socio-economic impacts on women are accurately identified, maximizing constructive outcomes while mitigating potential negative risks. Ultimately, Eni’s ‘Dual Flag’ model is rooted in a clear understanding of local needs, and enduring collaborations with national and international bodies, establishing Alliances for Development. Through this unified framework, the Company successfully reconciles energy security and industrial competitiveness with local economic growth and long-term decarbonization goals.
Claudio Descalzi: Eni’s integrated model for long-term local development
The role of energy as a driver of progress was also addressed by Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi in a recent article for “Civiltà del Lavoro”, the official publication of the Italian Federation of Knights of Labor. Reflecting on how the energy sector remains deeply tied to global geopolitical stability – a connection made strikingly clear by recent crises – the CEO emphasized that strengthening global energy autonomy and security has become an urgent imperative. To address this challenge, Eni also advances targeted projects alongside long-standing partners, deploying innovative projects that enhance energy resilience, spur regional economic growth, and foster new industrial supply chains. Specifically, the Group delivers on these commitments through collaborative partnerships spanning six main areas of intervention: community health, education promotion, water access, environmental protection, economic diversification, and energy access. Illustrating the scale of this commitment, Eni maintained 64 active cooperation agreements across its operational sectors in 2025. Across all these domains, the Group relies on dedicated Development Programs and access-to-energy initiatives tailored to host territories. For instance, for Eni, advancing community welfare requires satisfying essential social needs and upholding fundamental rights, while simultaneously empowering regional businesses and generating sustainable local employment. As CEO Claudio Descalzi noted, the Group remains firmly convinced that generating enduring value is only achievable through a unified strategy – one that integrates economic growth, local development, and environmental responsibility.
