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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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Recent Talking Points

23.05.2024

Workshop: Discovering the (un)sustainable

Program Discovering the (un)sustainable is a full-day event that takes place on[...]

22.05.2024

Lecture: Groundwater-Surface Water Exchange Processes

Lee Slater, professor of Geophysics at the Rutgers University Newark, expert[...]

16.05.2024

The Future of Global Environmental Negotiations: Assessing the Role of Science and Technology

Program Global environmental negotiations have become central sites for studying the interaction[...]

09.05.2024

Lecture: the Challenges of the Green Deal

Have you ever tried and failed to achieve a holistic understanding of[...]

02.05.2024

Climate Fresk for Students and Employees

The Sustainability Office and the ECH are pleased to offer the Climate Fresk experience for employees and students[...]

14.03.2024

Launch of the Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH) on 8 March 2024: Global Crises Need Interdisciplinary Research

14.03.2024

Interview With Climate Scientist Stefan Rahmstorf

12.03.2024

The Public is Ready for Climate Reform – so What now? A Talk With Kimberly Doell

If climate change is to be tackled, we need both individual behavior[...]

08.03.2024

International Women’s Day 2024: ECH Honors Outstanding Women With Environment and Climate Award

14.02.2024

ECH in the Spotlight

The University of Vienna’s research magazine Rudolphina has compiled a collection of[...]

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