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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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.
The ECH congratulates the University of Vienna for ranking 95th in this year’s THE World University Rankings, becoming the first Austrian university to be listed among the top 100. Excelling in the categories of research, internationalization, teaching, and industry engagement, the University has proved itself yet again despite increasing competition. The ECH is proud to be part of the…
When science speaks, society benefits. Climate research is too urgent and complex to remain within academia. For the ECH, silence is not an option. This is why the ECH reaches out to society to communicate complex environmental research.
Our food systems are under pressure: resource consumption, climate change, and a growing population are threatening food security. At the 16th qualityaustria Food Forum in Vienna, environmental scientist and ECH co-director Thilo Hofmann showed how sustainable food systems, technological innovations, and more conscious consumption can point the way out of the crisis - for the health of people and…
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.
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