Greta Thunberg, U.N. Climate Change Summit, 23 September 2019
(Pollitt 2016)
The International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) is a learned society in public administration, established in 1930 to design public administration solutions to the policy challenges of the day.
To celebrate its 90th anniversary, it organizes its 2020 Conference in Brussels, the host city of the institution. The Federal Public Service Finances hosts the IIAS Secretariat, and the Conference in the Finance Tower.
The IIAS 2020 Conference addresses the theme of Public Governance for Climate Action.
Climate change is an increasingly salient policy issue:
Accordingly, in its call-for-proposal, the IIAS has invited its network to revisit these public administration approaches to wicked issues with the challenge of Climate Change in mind. Five streams emerge from the received proposals, all constituting the present call-for-contributions: