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Contemporary global environmental politics are increasingly characterised by the emergence of private actors, in particular private companies, in the process of shaping and managing international regimes. The role of corporate lobbying is largely neglected in International Relations' theory, except for the neo-gramscian analysis of transnational capitalist elites' influence on international regimes. Based on available literature as well as some empirical observations, our analysis revisits the cases of the Kyoto Protocol (climate change) and the Cartagena Protocol (biosafety) to question the neo-gramscian vision of business lobbying in environmental multilateral agreements. On the one hand, private companies are poorly organized at the transnational level, and are divided along several fault lines. On the other hand, their influence on negotiations' results is unequal and never warranted.
