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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.

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

14.01.2025

Lead Pollution and Cognitive Decline in Ancient Rome

An international team of scientists, including Andreas Stohl, ECH[...]

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09.01.2025

WWTF Supports Project to Advance Urban Sustainability

With 70% of the world’s population living in cities by 2050,[...]

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10.12.2024

(DE) Neue Schnittstelle stärkt Österreichs Beitrag zur globalen Biodiversitätsforschung

Mit der Gründung der Schnittstelle “Biodiversity Austria –[...]

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20.11.2024

Among the Most Cited Scientists Worldwide: Franz Essl, Andreas Richter and Mathew White from ECH

The list of[...]

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20.11.2024

ECH-Mitglied Laura Koesten gewinnt Hedy Lamarr-Preis

Laura Koesten, Wissenschafterin in der Forschungsgruppe „Visualization and Data Analysis“ der Uni[...]

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12.11.2024

Pitch Your Thesis: ECH fördert junge Talente und zukunftsweisende Forschung

Am 4. November bot die Veranstaltung „Pitch Your Thesis“ fünf ausgewählten Masterstudierenden[...]

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30.10.2024

Science of the Unexpected: The ECHs Annual Research Retreat

This year’s ECH Research Frontiers Workshop focused on[...]

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23.10.2024

What Can Environmental Psychology Contribute to Curbing Microplastic Pollution?

Science has provided more than enough evidence to develop a collective and global approach to tackle the spread of plastic pollution. [...]

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23.10.2024

Oceans of Data: Diplomacy in a Digital Aquarium – Will Marine Policy Become More Scientific?

European researchers are creating an online tool that maps the entire ocean. Will it lead to more science-based diplomatic negotiations or just perpetuate existing problems? [...]

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23.10.2024

Deep Sea Carbon and The Climate

The ocean stores many times more carbon than the atmosphere, yet many of the mechanisms behind its carbon cycles are not yet fully understood. [...]

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Upcoming Events

  • Science for Policy Hackathon

    06.-07.02.2025

    Apostelgasse 23, 1030

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  • Pitch Day: Science for Policy Hackathon

    10.02.2025

    DOCK, Spittelauer Lände 10, 1090

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  • 13. Umwelt im Gespräch – Schadstoffe in Lebensmitteln: Kleine Dosis, welche Wirkung?

    06.05.2025

    Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

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