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world’s most ambitious plans to tackle climate change.
Ideas present in that Deal just a bit more than one year
ago, seen as radical at the time, are now routinely
presented in the main government’s agendas.
The science is not missing any occasion to report us
news of more melting, more storms, more droughts, as
well as more fires. We can mention IPPC
(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), which
through its assessments, determines the state of
knowledge on climate change. They are telling us we
need a step change in the pace of our decarbonization
processes: we need to accelerate the actions to
change current emissions’ trends and get on track to
achieving the long-term temperature goals set by the
Paris Agreement. For over a decade, the UNEP (United
Nations Environmental Programme) Emissions Gap
Reports have provided a yearly review of the difference
between where greenhouse emissions are predicted to
be in 2030 and where they should be to avoid the worst
impacts of climate change. The pandemic caused a
drop of up to 7 per cent in carbon dioxide emissions in
2020. However, as the UNEP Emissions Gap Report
2020 shows, this dip will have an insignificant impact
on the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming
to well below 2°C, and pursuing 1.5°C, unless the
international community prioritizes a green recovery.
So, we have plenty of tools to keep awareness up. It is
not an easy job to track all the inputs, as the energy
scenarios, the technology developments, as well as
political initiatives around the world.
For this reason, in Saipem we consider the
decarbonization with a “holistic” approach, involving all
the functions throughout the company and promoting a
change in our “Corporate mindset”, addressed by
policies and procedures throughout our business. We
are even aware that a huge step forward like the one
required to all of us, cannot be even imagined without
a deep switch in our mindset, meaning in the way we
address choices and drivers in our area of influence, at
robably it is the first time we are work as well at home.
witnessing a so radical, as well as
global, increasing of awareness and “In Saipem we consider the
actions, or at least commitments, at decarbonization with a ‘holistic’
the same time, as it is happening in the approach, involving all the functions
Plast few months. Before COVID 19 it throughout the company and
was difficult to find immediate cause-effect relations promoting a change in our
between our actions and their impacts on the ‘Corporate mindset’
environment and, mainly, on our lives and future.
Pandemic helped to show how a change in the So, awareness and behavioral change programs will be
environment, in terms of ecosystems, biodiversity and integrated part of our Decarbonization programs. We
climate, may have a tangible consequence right now, aim to create “agents of change”, in order to “enable
not in a far future. Surely the pandemic acted as a evolution” within our Organization, as well as outside it,
catalyst on establishing this sort of enhanced throughout our clients, suppliers and all the players of
awareness. our value chain.
For instance, only at the end of 2019, the European We are seriously starting to consider the environmental
Commission announced the EU Green Deal, one of the topics as a sort of “E factor”, present in all the Company

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