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.
A new study by researchers at the University of Vienna and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, published in the renowned journal Environmental International, shows that crops absorb tire abrasion compounds.
On the art of translating complex environmental research into public conversations – and why silence is not an option.
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.
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.
