EClim
Research Group on
Environment and Climate
An interdisciplinary perspective
on climate impacts, risks and adaptation
in mountainous regions
🎤 Cornelia Krug @UZH_ch @IPBES: 🇨🇠braucht Schutzgebiete auf 30% der ... Landesfläche gegen den Verlust der #Biodiversität. Investitionen in den Naturschutz wirken sich auch positiv auf Wirtschaft, Wohlergehen und Gesundheit aus. #trendwende
🎤 Christian Huggel @UZH_ch @IPCC_CH: Eine Erwärmung >2°C birgt enormen Risiken, ... Folgen sind schwierig oder nicht mehr bewältigbar. 🇨🇠muss mehr für Anpassung an den #Klimawandel investieren für Gesundheit, Wirtschaft und Wohlergehen.
#trendwende
🎤 Sonia Seneviratne @ETH @IPCC_CH: Il y a un lien direct entre le réchauffement global... et les changements d’événements extrêmes. 🇨ðŸ‡: canicules ⬆︎, sécheresses ⬆︎, eau ⬇︎, précipitations extremes ⬆︎, risques pour la sécurité alimentaire et la migration.
#trendwende
What we do
The EClim group investigates risks, impacts and adaptation options to climate change, focusing on mountain regions and its people throughout the world.
Our research integrates natural and social science disciplines to understand how environmental and socio-environmental systems respond to climate change.
We aim to produce actionable and solution-oriented knowledge, and we collaborate with stakeholders from practice and policy.
Who we are
Based at the Department of Geography of the University of Zurich and the Department of Geosciences of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), we are a multi-disciplinary team. We are geographers, climate scientists and social scientists, who bring experience and expertise in climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, climate policy advice and capacity building.
Where we work
Our group has research collaborations across the globe and conducts research with a focus in the Andes, the Alps, the Himalayas, and Central Asia. Our work is multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral, ranging from local to regional to global scale.
Explore the map to see where we work and our projects at each location.
