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.
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15 November 2023
IIASA researchers again ranked among the world's most cited

06 November 2023
IIASA analysis underpins the IEA World Energy Outlook, revealing rapid energy transition benefits

30 August 2023
Performing artists and scientists take the stage at Vienna’s MuTh theatre
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Focus
04 October 2023
ENGAGE Summary for Policymakers

03 October 2023
Stakeholder engagement in climate change solutions

Publications
Mir, K.A., Purohit, P. , Ijaz, M., Babar, Z.B., & Mehmood, S. (2024). Black carbon emissions inventory and scenario analysis for Pakistan. Environmental Pollution 340 e122745. 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122745. Chen, S., Lu, X., Nielsen, C., McElroy, M., He, G., Zhang, S. , He, K., Yang, X., Zhang, F., & Hao, J. (2023). Deploying solar photovoltaic energy first in carbon-intensive regions brings gigatons more carbon mitigations to 2060. Communications Earth & Environment 4 (1) e369. 10.1038/s43247-023-01006-x. Romanello, M., Napoli, C., Green, C., Kennard, H., Lampard, P., Scamman, D., Walawender, M., Ali, Z., Ameli, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Beggs, P., Belesova, K., Berrang Ford, L., Bowen, K., Cai, W., Callaghan, M., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Chambers, J., Cross, T., van Daalen, K., Dalin, C., Dasandi, N., Dasgupta, S., Davies, M., Dominguez-Salas, P., Dubrow, R., Ebi, K., Eckelman, M., Ekins, P., Freyberg, C., Gasparyan, O., Gordon-Strachan, G., Graham, H., Gunther, S., Hamilton, I., Hang, Y., Hänninen, R., Hartinger, S., He, K., Heidecke, J., Hess, J., Hsu, S., Jamart, L., Jankin, S., Jay, O., Kelman, I., Kiesewetter, G. , Kinney, P., Kniveton, D., Kouznetsov, R., Larosa, F., Lee, J., Lemke, B., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lott, M., Lotto Batista, M., Lowe, R., Odhiambo Sewe, M., Martinez-Urtaza, J., Maslin, M., McAllister, L., McMichael, C., Mi, Z., Milner, J., Minor, K., Minx, J., Mohajeri, N., Momen, N., Moradi-Lakeh, M., Morrissey, K., Munzert, S., Murray, K., Neville, T., Nilsson, M., Obradovich, N., O'Hare, M., Oliveira, C., Oreszczyn, T., Otto, M., Owfi, F., Pearman, O., Pega, F., Pershing, A., Rabbaniha, M., Rickman, J., Robinson, E., Rocklöv, J., Salas, R., Semenza, J., Sherman, J., Shumake-Guillemot, J., Silbert, G., Sofiev, M., Springmann, M., Stowell, J., Tabatabaei, M., Taylor, J., Thompson, R., Tonne, C., Treskova, M., Trinanes, J., Wagner, F. , Warnecke, L. , Whitcombe, H., Winning, M., Wyns, A., Yglesias-González, M., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhu, Q., Gong, P., Montgomery, H., & Costello, A. (2023). The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms. The Lancet 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01859-7. (In Press) Zhang, S., Zhang, C., Cai, W., Bai, Y., Callaghan, M., Chang, N., Chen, B., Chen, H., Cheng, L., Dai, H., Dai, X., Fan, W., Fang, X., Gao, T., Geng, Y., Guan, D., Hu, Y., Hua, J., Huang, C., Huang, H., Huang, J., Huang, X., Ji, J., Jiang, Q., Jiang, X., Kiesewetter, G. , Li, T., Liang, L., Lin, B., Lin, H., Liu, H., Liu, Q., Liu, X., Liu, Z., Liu, Z., Liu, Y., Lu, B., Lu, C., Luo, Z., Ma, W., Mi, Z., Ren, C., Romanello, M., Shen, J., Su, J., Sun, Y., Sun, X., Tang, X., Walawender, M., Wang, C., Wang, Q., Wang, R., Warnecke, L. , Wei, W., Wen, S., Xie, Y., Xiong, H., Xu, B., Yan, Y., Yang, X., Yao, F., Yu, L., Yuan, J., Zeng, Y., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, R., Zhang, S., Zhang, S. , Zhao, M., Zheng, D., Zhou, H., Zhou, J., Zhou, Z., Luo, Y., & Gong, P. (2023). The 2023 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: taking stock for a thriving future. The Lancet Public Health 10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00245-1. Huang, L., Zhao, B., Wang, S., Chang, X., Klimont, Z. , Huang, G., Zheng, H., & Hao, J. (2023). Global Anthropogenic Emissions of Full-Volatility Organic Compounds. Environmental Science & Technology 10.1021/acs.est.3c04106. (In Press)
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
