Tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution demands collaboration across and beyond disciplines. The ECH provides essential knowledge, space for collaboration, and support for our shared future.
About ECH
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.
We are living in times of unprecedented environmental change. Climate disruption, species extinction, and pollution are no longer distant threats – they are present realities. But with knowledge comes power to act.
This free course invites you to explore the environmental challenges shaping our world – and to discover your role in creating lasting solutions. Through engaging video lessons and…
How can we move from knowledge to action on climate issues? This question is being addressed by the Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH) in cooperation with the City of Vienna in its lecture series "Environment, Climate, Sustainability: From Knowledge to Action". What lies behind this topic and how science and administration can work together towards a sustainable future was also the subject…
From 2–3 October, the ECH retreat in Bad Vöslau brought together researchers across different fields to explore how interdisciplinary collaboration can tackle today’s environmental challenges – from microplastics in the air to climate litigation and parenthood in times of the climate crisis.
Working together on better practices and processes to create a cleaner planet
Environmental changes require multiscalar responses at the urban, regional, and global level
Preserving biodiversity and ecosystems to ensure a common future
A global sustainable transformation needs social, cultural, and institutional change
A free interdisciplinary online course (MOOC) coordinated by the Environment and Climate Research Hub of the University of Vienna.
❯ Timo Bühler
❯ Nora Gau
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