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How can policy makers best succeed when seeking to advance policy reform -- not just incremental change? That is an issue OECD has been addressing for a number of year, in many different policy areas. As a contribution to a larger study, Making Reform Happen, a chapter on Making Reform Happen in Environmental Policy was prepared.

The issue of water policy reform was addressed in the report Meeting the Water Reform Challenge, which was released at the 6^th World Water Forum in March 2012. Consult The water challenge: OECD's response for additional work on water policies.

There is a growing wealth of experience in reforms that have been carried out, and OECD has launched a series of case studies called “Lessons in Environmental Policy Reform”. The first case study discusses the implementation of a refunded tax on NO_x emissions from major combustion plants in Sweden. Additional case studies are under preparation.

Related documents:

Publications

• Meeting the Water Reform Challenge (2012)
• Making Reform Happen: Lessons from OECD Countries (2010)

Working papers and reports

• The Political Economy of the French Carbon Tax project (2012)
• Lessons in Environmental Policy Reform: The Swedish tax on NO_x emissions (2012), also available in French.
• Making Reform Happen in Environmental Policy (2010)