By Max Bernhard

ENI SpA (ENI.MI) is to team up with Italy's National Research Council to research fusion energy and other sustainable technologies, as well as climate change.

The utility company said Sunday that it agreed to set up four research centers in southern Italy. A facility in Lecce will focus on arctic climate change, while magnetic confinements for fusion energy will be researched in Gela.

In Basilicata, the two partners will look into sustainable water cycles, while a center in Portici will study agricultural methods that emit less CO2, ENI said.

The research agreement is in line with the United Nations' 2030 sustainable development goals, CNR President Massimo Inguscio said.

"At the same time, it will also promote solutions for and help mitigate the growing impact of drought in the Mediterranean and strategic areas like the Horn of Africa, the Sahel and the Middle East," he said.

Write to Max Bernhard at max.bernhard@dowjones.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

March 25, 2019 03:13 ET (07:13 GMT)

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