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Since the early 1970s, the Italian oil and gas giant ENI has been aware of the huge damage caused by fossil fuels to the planet's climate.This is what the second report attests ENI Knew, recently published by Greenpeace Italy And ReCommon.The organizations authoring the report have in fact examined publications that they already contained in libraries and archives, including those of ENI itself obvious indicators on the climate risks linked to the growing consumption of oil and gas.Which did not, however, stop the action of the multinational. The document remember how, already in 1969, the company had entrusted one of its study centres, the Institute for Studies on Economic Development and Technical Progress (ISVET), the task of creating a technical-economic investigation on environmental matters, entitled “Public intervention against pollution;evaluation of the costs and economic benefits connected to a project to eliminate the main forms of air and water pollution in Italy"...

Crotone, Gela, Livorno, Pavia, Potenza, Ravenna, Taranto, Venice.When it comes to the world of Italian culture, the energy giant ENI has its legs almost everywhere.This is highlighted recently relationship of the Association South drawn up in collaboration with the Environmental Conflict Documentation Centre.The dossier delves into the link between ENI and culture, observing the initiatives promoted by the group, and exploring «the strategies of “cultural washing"implemented by the company";in short, it intends to reveal the ways in which ENI would exploit its cultural projects (ranging from the sponsorship of Serie A, to that of local festivals or symbolic anniversaries such as World Children's Day) to improve its public image and divert attention from its controversial and ethically questionable practices in the exploitation of oil and gas.«ENI's operation is a sophisticated form of mass distraction», denounces the report:it "aims to divert atte...