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Eni for 2016 | Operating model

| Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Eni’s commitment to Biodiversity best practices in order the Energy and Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services (BES) is to protect biodiversity and Initiative’s guidelines and the
an integral part of the Company’s the ecosystem services from tools developed by IPIECA
sustainability policy published the first exploration stages to and IOGP are applied.
in 2011. the end of the project cycle. Moreover, Eni is working with
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In line with this policy Principles in line with the UNEP-WCMC to publish an
Eni operates according to Convention of Biological ad hoc policy on biodiversity
internationally recognized Diversity (CBD), and ecosystem services.

Distinctive Integrated Biodiversity Impact Participation in:
management Assessment Tool assessment
model (IBAT)

• Management • Use of the UNEP-WCM1’s • Integrated impact • Industry associations
model developed in IBAT tool to map the assessment: such as IPIECA-IOGP
collaboration with position of protected Environmental, Social and the Cross–Sector
Fauna and Flora areas and the presence & Health Impact Biodiversity Initiative
International of species at risk of Assessment (ESHIA) (CSBI)
• Model is applied in extinction in all new projects • UNEP-WCMC’s
priority operating sites • IBAT is used to identify Proteus Partnership
and in all new projects, the priority operating sites • WBCSD’s Natural
throughout the project where action plans need Capital & Ecosystem
cycle to be developed Working Group

Eni’s goal of increasing the the potential impact associated Italy, Mozambique, Ecuador,
number of priority sites for by the activities by 20% was Republic of Congo, Ghana,
which biodiversity action plans achieved in 2016. Currently Kazakhstan, Egypt and the
are defined in order to mitigate BES activities are ongoing in: United States.

32) United Nations Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre.