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Tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution demands global collaboration. The ECH provides essential knowledge, space for collaboration, and support for our shared future.

Kickstarting Environmental Solutions

We are facing a triple crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution each pose separate yet interconnected challenges. An integrated and mechanistic understanding and approach to these different facets of the crisis is necessary to ensure a sustainable future for us all. The ECH brings together researchers to produce excellent scientific knowledge that can provide us with solutions for this multitude of challenges.

Our Focus Areas

Latest news and projects from our focus areas:

Clean Environment

Climate Resilience

Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Changing Society

Recent Talking Points

  • 14.03.2024

    Launch of the Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH) on 8 March 2024: Global Crises Need Interdisciplinary Research

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  • 14.03.2024

    Interview With Climate Scientist Stefan Rahmstorf

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  • 16.05.2024

    The Future of Global Environmental Negotiations: Assessing the Role of Science and Technology

    Program Global environmental negotiations have become central sites for studying the interaction[...]

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  • 09.05.2024

    Lecture: the Challenges of the Green Deal

    Have you ever tried and failed to achieve a holistic understanding of[...]

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  • 02.05.2024

    Climate Fresk for Students and Employees

    The Sustainability Office and the ECH are pleased to offer the Climate Fresk experience for employees and students[...]

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  • 12.03.2024

    The Public is Ready for Climate Reform – so What now? A Talk With Kimberly Doell

    If climate change is to be tackled, we need both individual behavior[...]

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  • 08.03.2024

    International Women’s Day 2024: ECH Honors Outstanding Women With Environment and Climate Award

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  • 14.02.2024

    ECH in the Spotlight

    The University of Vienna’s research magazine Rudolphina has compiled a collection of[...]

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  • 24.01.2024

    Review: ECH in Discussion With Viennese Students

    On 24 January, ECH member Katrin Attermeyer and coordinator Timo Bühler, together[...]

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  • 17.01.2024

    Review: Semester Question Panel Discussion – „What Will Our Future be Made of?“

    Energy transition, circular economy, self-repairing cities: what innovative materials are needed to[...]

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  • ECH

    Clean Environment

    Climate Resilience

    Biodiversity and Ecosystems

    Changing Society

    Upcoming Events

  • (DE) Climate Walk zum Thema „klimaresiliente Städte“ am 28. Mai

    28.05.2024

    7. Bezirk

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  • (DE) 11. Umwelt im Gespräch: Klimawandel und urbaner Hitzestress: Wie können Städte der Zukunft begegnen?

    28.05.2024

    Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

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  • Climate Fresk for Students in English

    03.06.2024

    ECH Seminar room "Rachel Carson", Alte WU, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna

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  • Climate Fresk for Students in German

    07.06.2024

    ECH Seminar room "Rachel Carson", Alte WU, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna

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