ABSTRACT
The spectres of climate change and the international regulation of greenhouse gas emissions have motivated both the business and environmental communities to organise their climate advocacy efforts. The anti-politics function of business associations is at the heart of the private sector's difficulties in organising internal consensus and projecting a united front in the climate negotiations. In the multilateral climate negotiations, business and industry Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) provide access, consensus and anti-politics functions for their member companies. A side-effect of the multilateral climate negotiations has been an increase in the number and size of NGOs voicing the concerns of the environmental and business communities in national and international areas. Agreement within the business and environmental community is attractive to each because an organised umbrella organisation with a large membership is more likely to wield political influence. The business community has been less effective in organising a consensus voice and projecting a united front in the climate debates.
