The PM Group focusses on solving immediate and near-term environmental (health and ecosystems impacts from pollution), climate (non-CO2 greenhouse gases), and social (widening inequality gaps) problems in a cost-effective way, providing support to policymaking at local and regional scales.
The PM Group addresses sustainability challenges in the near and long term through an improved understanding of the multiple benefits of policies and their distribution across society. The group has a strong focus on the development of new approaches for multi-sectoral policy interventions to manage pollution across different media (air, water, and soil) at various scales to address near-term concerns and enable long-term transformations and their public support towards a sustainable future. In particular, the group endeavors to enhance the systems perspective approach to address and explore issues such as the interactions and environmental impacts of pollution; assessment of sources of non-CO2 greenhouse gases; mitigation opportunities; approaches to address nutrient and material cycling; options for more equitable solutions; and improved methods for estimating the health and economic benefits of policy interventions.
Models, tools, datasets
Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies (GAINS)
Model for Energy Supply Strategy Alternatives and their General Environmental Impact (MESSAGEix)
ENGAGE Scenario Explorer
Projects
Finding solutions to pollution caused by shipping in Europe (EMERGE)
Development of a global integrated assessment modeling system for climate-air pollutants management focused on Northeast Asia (GUIDE)
Development of a collaborative, integrated management framework to improve future air quality in Northeast Asia (AQNEA)
Exploring National and Global Actions to reduce Greenhouse gas Emissions (ENGAGE)
Staff
Samuel Guéret
Researcher (PM)
Adriana Gomez Sanabria
Research Scholar (PM)
Laura Warnecke
Researcher (PM)
Anna Pauls
Research Scholar (PM)
News
28 February 2023
Indian Ambassador visits IIASA
H.E. Ambassador Jaideep Mazumdar, Permanent Representative of the Republic of India to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, recently visited IIASA to meet with IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld.
16 November 2022
The need for rapid methane mitigation
Human-driven methane emissions account for nearly 45% of current net warming. The Global Methane Assessment 2030 baseline report, issued by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition and coauthored by IIASA researcher Lena Höglund-Isaksson, evaluates the progress of global reduction efforts. If the world is to keep global temperature rise below 1.5° and 2°C targets, swift action is needed.
15 November 2022
IIASA researchers once again among the world’s most highly cited
IIASA is proud to announce that 11 researchers from across various IIASA programs have been named on the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers™ list from Clarivate.
Focus
22 February 2023
Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling (CIAM)
Since 1999 IIASA has been hosting the Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling (CIAM), one of the four centres assigned for the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution.
22 February 2023
GAINS analyses for the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP15 in Copenhagen
As input to the climate negotiations at COP15 in Copenhagen 2009, IIASA has developed a coherent international comparison of greenhouse gas mitigation efforts among Annex I Parties in 2020. This web site provides interactive access to an on-line calculator, underlying input data, and documentation of the methodology.
22 February 2023
Pollution Management in Developing Countries
There is an urgent need in the developing world for increased support on pollution management in order to respond to the magnitude of the threat to human health and economies. Responding to pollution is a challenge that is solvable in the near term to save lives and unlock economic opportunity through action at the local, national, regional and global levels.
The methods developed by the IIASA AIR program offer an integrated perspective on cost-effective policy interventions that improve air quality, reduce negative health impacts, and deliver benefits for a wide range of development goals.
Publications
Dong, J., Cai, B., Zhang, S. , Wang, J., Yue, H., Wang, C., Mao, X., Cong, J., & Guo, F. (2023). Closing the Gap between Carbon Neutrality Targets and Action: Technology Solutions for China’s Key Energy-Intensive Sectors. Environmental Science & Technology 57 (11) 4396-4405. 10.1021/acs.est.2c08171.
Jiang, H.-D., Purohit, P. , Liang, Q.-M., Liu, L.-J., & Zhang, Y.-F. (2023). Improving the regional deployment of carbon mitigation efforts by incorporating air-quality co-benefits: A multi-provincial analysis of China. Ecological Economics 204 e107675. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107675.
Monteith, D.T., Henrys, P.A., Hruska, J., de Wit, H.A., Kram, P., Moldan, F., Posch, M. , Raike, A., Stoddard, J.L., Shilland, E.M., Pereira, M., & Evans, C.D. (2023). Long-term rise in riverine dissolved organic carbon concentration is predicted by electrolyte solubility theory. Science Advances 9 (3) eade3491. 10.1126/sciadv.ade3491.
Gu, B., Zhang, X., Lam, S.K., Yu, Y., van Grinsven, H.J.M., Zhang, S. , Wang, X., Bodirsky, B.L., Wang, S., Duan, J., Ren, C., Bouwman, L., de Vries, W., Xu, J., Sutton, M.A., & Chen, D. (2023). Cost-effective mitigation of nitrogen pollution from global croplands. Nature 613 (7942) 77-84. 10.1038/s41586-022-05481-8.
Kukkonen, J., Fridell, E., Jalkanen, J.-P., Moldanova, J., Ntziachristos, L., Grigoriadis, A., Barmpas, F., Tsegas, G., Maragkidou, A., Sofiev, M., Grönholm, T., Majamäki, E., Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Sokhi, R. S., Tiwari, P. R., Ozdemir, U. A., Zervakis, V., Krasakopoulou, E., Hassellöv, I.-M., Ytreberg, E., Williams, I., Hudson, M., Zapata-Restrepo, L., Hole, L. R., Aghito, M., Breivik, O., Petrovic, M., Rodriguez-Mozaz, S., Ktoris, A., Neophytou, M., Monteiro, A., Russo, M. A., Oikonomou, F., Arampatzi, P., Gondikas, A., Marcomini, A., Giubilato, E., Calgaro, L., Jaakkola, J. J. K., Kiihamäki, S.-P., Aittamaa, R., Broström, G., Hassellöv, M., Tamminen, J., Nicolas, F., Kaitaranta, J., Granberg, M., & Magnusson, K. (2023). Towards a Comprehensive Evaluation of the Environmental and Health Impacts of Shipping Emissions. In: Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXVIII. ITM 2021. Eds. Mensink, C. & Jorba, O., pp. 329-336 Cham: Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-12786-1 10.1007/978-3-031-12786-1_44.
