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.
Peatlands are powerful carbon sinks - if we let them stay intact. New research from ECH members shows how wetland farming - magic word: paludiculture - and microbial life can work together to reduce emissions without sacrificing land use. A story of science, sustainability, and the surprising appetite of microorganisms.
Almost every day, we can see clouds in the sky, but rarely we are aware of their wide-ranging impact on the climate. They can both raise and drop temperatures and have complex interactions with the particles in the air. These could even allow us to influence the clouds to fight climate change.
PFAS, the so-called ‘forever chemicals’, are non-degradable and widespread in everyday products – despite their known health risks. As regulatory action often lags behind, civil lawsuits are playing an increasingly important role in addressing environmental toxins. An interdisciplinary approach reveals: lasting solutions will require cooperation between science, law, and policy.
October 13th, 2025, 6pm - 8pm
Ballroom, Vienna City Hall
November 11th, 2025, 6pm - 8pm
Natural History Museum Vienna
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
Our research newsletter ‘ECHO’ provides you with the latest and most exciting information from the fields of environmental and climate research.
