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

12 April 2023
Peking University delegation visits IIASA

24 March 2023
Urgent need to ramp up climate action to secure a liveable future for all

28 February 2023
Indian Ambassador visits IIASA
Events
Focus
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

Publications
Kiesewetter, G. , Klimont, Z. , Ru, M., & Slater, J. (2023). National Assessment of the Cost of Inaction of Tackling Air Pollution in Thailand. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the United Nations Environment Programme , Laxeburg, Austria.
Wagner, F. , Slater, J., Kiesewetter, G. , & Klimont, Z. (2023). Guide to Assessing the Costs of Inaction of Tackling Air Pollution. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the United Nations Environment Programme , Laxeburg, Austria.
Aldis, M., Posch, M. , & Aherne, J. (2023). Normative Mineralogy of 1170 Soil Profiles across Canada. Minerals 13 (4) e544. 10.3390/min13040544.
Zhai, S., Jacob, D.J., Pendergrass, D.C., Colombi, N.K., Shah, V., Yang, L.H., Zhang, Q., Wang, S., Kim, H., Sun, Y., Choi, J.-S., Park, J.-S., Luo, G., Yu, F., Woo, J.-H., Kim, Y. , Dibb, J.E., Lee, T., Han, J.-S., Anderson, B.E., Li, K., & Liao, H. (2023). Coarse particulate matter air quality in East Asia: implications for fine particulate nitrate. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 23 (7) 4271-4281. 10.5194/acp-23-4271-2023.
Winiwarter, W. , Peters, G., Thompson, R., & EYE-CLIMA consortium (2023). EYE-CLIMA: developing inverse modelling approaches for monitoring national GHG inventories. In: EGU General Assembly 2023, 23-28 April 2023, Vienna.
Policy applications
22 February 2023
The Arctic Council

22 February 2023
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)

22 February 2023
Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling (TFIAM) under the LRTAP Convention
