Eni, Milan Uni Ink Carbon Neutrality Deal
Italian major Eni has signed a framework agreement with the Polytechnic University of Milan on creating a joint innovation and research centre for progressing technologies to achieve carbon neutrality, it said on March 15.
Eni said the centre would host specific projects, "selected with technology foresight initiatives and with analysis focusing on the acceleration of technologies development paths and their deployment." Researchers, technologists and experts will come together in an environment that encourages new ideas and their commercialisation, it said.
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The centre will be established in the Innovation District that the Milan polytechnic is developing in Bovisa, which is backed with investment from the Lombardia region. Eni has been working with the university since 2008 and some €50mn ($60mn) has been invested in their collaboration to date. The new framework deal has a duration of five years that can be extended to seven.
"We have renewed an agreement of great strategic relevance that strengthens and accelerates our transition towards an ever more sustainable energy," Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi said. "Ours is an ambitious and tangible path, on which we already stepped with important milestones, but we cannot complete it with our commitment alone: we need to create a system within our country in order to promote the culture of circularity and carbon neutrality, while pooling investment opportunities and know-how."
The creating of the new centre "lays the foundation for this to happen," he said.