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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.

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Latest news and projects from our focus areas:

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Recent Talking Points

18.02.2025

Shaping a Sustainable Future for Vienna: A Report on the Science for Policy Hackathon Pitch Day

How can young researchers effectively learn to communicate evidence-based, scientific recommendations[...]

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29.01.2025

Unclear Visions of Carbon Removal

Current climate goals require the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, how exactly this should happen is up for debate. [...]

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29.01.2025

Warming Groundwater Affects Millions – Not Only Humans

While mostly hidden, groundwater is of central importance to surface ecosystems and human society. Christian Griebler, researcher at the University of Vienna and ECH-member, recently contributed to a new global model of groundwater temperature that predicts the effects of climate change on this subterranean ecosystem. [...]

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29.01.2025

Numbers Don’t Lie, Do They? On the Gap Between Greenhouse Gas Reports and Reality.

Under the Kyoto Protocol, countries must report their greenhouse gas emissions, including one of the most potent greenhouse gases: Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), used mainly as an insulator in the electrical industry. But the numbers don’t add up. [...]

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28.01.2025

Event Empfehlung: Mikroplastik: Der lange Schatten einer bahnbrechenden Innovation

Ulrike Felt, ECH-Mitglied und Professorin für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung an der[...]

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21.01.2025

Zukunft sichern durch nachhaltige Ernährungssysteme

„Moderne Ernährungssysteme haben einen zu hohen Ressourcenverbrauch und unsere Zivilisation überschreitet dauerhaft die planetaren Grenzen“, warnte der Umweltwissenschaftler Hofmann in seinem Vortrag bei der Wintertagung des Ökosozialen Forums.

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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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Upcoming Events

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

    06.05.2025

    Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

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