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.

The ECH's Climate Month: Our April Between Conferences, Audiences, and Playful Scientific Outreach

ECH in the Spotlight
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Markus Korenjak
Created by Nora Gau

In April, the Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH) at the University of Vienna once again demonstrated what sets it apart as an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research network: climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution are not merely studied here, but are consistently brought to the forefront in various social spheres.

Oceans on the Brink: How We Protect Them Will Determine Our Future

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Created by Verena Ahne

The oceans are under pressure from all sides. In a conversation with ECHO, political scientist Alice Vadrot and marine biologist Frank Melzner, ECH members at the University of Vienna, discuss how climate change is spoiling our vacations, why marine protected areas do not necessarily protect against deep-sea mining, and why every effort counts toward making marine ecosystems more resilient - and institutions for marine conservation stronger.
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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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