ENI incorporates just transition and AI into global agreement

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On 13 January, Italian energy group ENI renewed its global agreement on international industrial relations, corporate social responsibility and the just transition with Italian unions CGIL, CISL and UILTEC, alongside the global federation industriAll Global Union. The updated agreement expands its scope to cover environmental issues, artificial intelligence and the just transition.
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On 13 January 2026, the oil and energy group ENI renewed a global agreement on CSR with the global employee federation IndustriAll Global Union, the first version of which dates back to 2002. In the preamble, the Italian group (32,000 employees) reiterates its new strategy, defined in 2024, to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, which has led to an internal reorganisation. In addition, the signatories cite another initiative that emerged after the previous agreement (2019): a text signed in Ital

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