Publications

Multiplex Governance in EU Mission Cities

Multiplex Governance in EU Mission Cities

A conference paper by Ingeborg niestroy and Louis Meuleman presented at the PUBSIC conference (5-7- February 2025 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, using the 'multiplex governance' perspetive, comes to...

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Science-Policy in the Netherlands

Science-Policy in the Netherlands

On 11 December 2024, the final report of an analysis of the Dutch science-policy 'ecosystem' was presented to the permanent secretaries of the Ministries of Science and of the Interior, in The...

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Checking the consistency of EU legislation …

Checking the consistency of EU legislation …

Nov 2023 – A report PS4SD made for WWF Europe on two aspects of the 2021 revision of the European Commission’s Impact Assessment (IA) guidelines and tools shows some reason for concern. The consistency with EU Climate Law and the do-no-significant-harm principle was found not to be well implemented. In 11 out of the 20 reviewed IAs, the overview on relevant SDGs was missing in the Annexes of the respective IA reports.

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A Power Package for Public Institutions

A Power Package for Public Institutions

SDG Targets 16.6 and 17.14 should become the heart of a ‘power package’ to boost public administration and governance fitness to implement the SDGs, writes Louis Meuleman in a guest article at IISD.org. Download the pdf version.

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