The Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA) has announced the winner of this year's prestigious Young Researcher Award. The award goes to Dr. Halliki Kreinin, who completed her PhD last year at the Institute of Ecological Economics at the University of Economics in Vienna on the topic of sustainable work and production in relation to the 1.5 C target. She will officially receive the award on April 13 during the CCCA Austria Climate Day in Austria.

ZIN- junior scholar Halliki Kreinin is currently working in the EU research project "EU 1.5° Lifestyles" at the University of Münster. The project aims to establish more sustainable lifestyles in the European Union. Both as part of her PhD and now as part of this project, she is researching the societal changes that are needed to limit global warming according to the IPCC report. Halliki Kreinin's award-winning research focuses on sustainability indicators that can be used to measure society's progress toward a more just and equitable workforce.