After decades of hard debates, most of the scientists agree that earth climate changes are due to the increase of some gases (in particular CO2) produced by human activities.
The energy sector is the one that produces the highest level of GHG and nowadays oil and gas represent about 50% of global supply of primary energy.
In order to limit this environmental impact, many Oil Companies came together in different associations to propose some action plans to contain GHG emissions, especially CO2.
The OGCI (Oil & Gas Climate Initiative), for example, was born in 2014 with this aim and represents about one fifth of the global Oil&Gas production (27 Mboe/d).
It's interesting to highlight that in the last ten years all the members, included ENI, have reduced GHG emissions coming from their operations of about 20%.
As for Upstream activities, Logistics represents for sure one of the sectors with more emissions, mainly related to marine and air transportation, although carried out by third parties.
For this reason, ENI Logistics department has recently created a monitoring system for CO2 emissions and a set of KPI able to give an idea of the environmental impact due to passengers and freight transportation.
These KPIs allow to understand the performance and take consequent actions for reducing CO2 emissions due to transportation activities (e.g. means release, synergies, economical speed, dynamic positioning and higher saturation).
The ambitious agreement reached by the United Nations climate change conference "COP21" in Paris (December 2015) is an important milestone in the attempt to transform our energy systems. Oil and gas producers account for more than half of the energy that powers our economies today. Our sector accounts for about 5% of total manmade greenhouse gas emissions; in addition, the use of our products by other sectors including power, industry and transport accounts for an additional 32%. Companies are working with governments, international organizations and others to help reduce those emissions.
