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
Projects
Staff
News

30 August 2023
Performing artists and scientists take the stage at Vienna’s MuTh theatre

08 August 2023
Decarbonizing India's road transportation brings major co-benefits, notably reducing air pollution

26 July 2023
Ammonia reduction should be prioritized in Europe’s fight against air pollution
Events
11 July 2023 Archimedes Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Workshop on MESSAGEix and GAINS models at the new Archimedes Center
20 June 2023 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
NCGG 9th International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases
Focus
26 June 2023
Improving air pollution and public health in South Asia

23 June 2023
Japan and IIASA

22 February 2023
Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling (CIAM)

Publications
Rychła, A., Amon, B., Hassouna, M., van der Weerden, T.J., & Winiwarter, W. (2023). Costs and effects of measures to reduce ammonia emissions from dairy cattle and pig production: A comparison of country-specific estimations and model calculations. Journal of Environmental Management 344 e118678. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118678. Lutz, W. & Pachauri, S. (2023). Systems Analysis for Sustainable Wellbeing. 50 years of IIASA research, 40 years after the Brundtland Commission, contributing to the post-2030 Global Agenda. IIASA Report. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) 10.5281/zenodo.8214208. Kaltenegger, K. , Bai, Z., Dragosits, U., Fan, X., Greinert, A., Guéret, S., Suchowska-Kisielewicz, M., Winiwarter, W. , Zhang, L., & Zhou, F. (2023). Urban nitrogen budgets: Evaluating and comparing the path of nitrogen through cities for improved management. Science of the Total Environment e166827. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166827. (In Press) Yang, T., Shu, Y., Zhang, S. , Wang, H., Zhu, J., & Wang, F. (2023). Impacts of end-use electrification on air quality and CO2 emissions in China's northern cities in 2030. Energy 278 e127899. 10.1016/j.energy.2023.127899. Ru, M., Shindell, D., Spadaro, J., Lamarque, J.-F., Challapalli, A., Wagner, F. , & Kiesewetter, G. (2023). New concentration-response functions for seven morbidity endpoints associated with short-term PM2.5 exposure and their implications for health impact assessment. Environment International 179 e108122. 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108122.
Policy applications
22 February 2023
Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling (CIAM)

22 February 2023
GAINS analyses for the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP15 in Copenhagen

22 February 2023
Pollution Management in Developing Countries
