Environment and Climate Research Hub

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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.

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Kickstarting 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.

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Understand the Crisis – Be Part of the Solution

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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 expert insights across disciplines, you'll gain a hopeful perspective on our shared planetary future.

“Changing Cities – Changing Societies” Lecture Series Opens at Vienna City Hall

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Markus Korenjak

The opening event of the public lecture series “Changing Cities – Changing Societies” at Vienna City Hall brought together perspectives from research, urban planning, politics, culture and civil society. Organised by the Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH) and the City of Vienna, the series uses examples from European cities to examine how collaboration can support sustainable urban change.

ECH Research Frontiers Workshop strengthens interdisciplinary exchange on environment and climate research

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Thomas Suchanek

At its Research Retreat in Bad Vöslau, the Environment and Climate Research Hub brought together researchers for workshops, discussions and a moderated Grand Conversation. University of Vienna ViCAS fellows added new perspectives, while keynote speaker Karen R. Lips of IIASA and ECH ambassador Lora E. Fleming contributed to exchanges on current challenges in environment and climate research.
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MOOC Environmental Emergencies

A free interdisciplinary online course (MOOC) coordinated by the Environment and Climate Research Hub of the University of Vienna.

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