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Over the past decade the governance of global climate change has evolved into a complex, multi-level process involving actors and initiatives at multiple levels of social organization from the global to the local in both the public and private spheres. This article analyzes the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) as one component of this multilevel governance system. Specifically, it evaluates the CEC as a site of regional climate governance based on three potential advantages of governance through regional organizations: a small number of actors, opportunities for issue linkage, and linkage between national and global governance systems. On each count I find that the benefits of a CEC-based climate governance system are limited and argue for greater consideration of how such a system would interact with other forms of climate governance in North America.

Introduction to NGO diplomacy -- Analytical framework -- Environmental NGOs and the Kyoto protocol negotiations: 1995 to 1997 -- Non-state actors and the Cartagena protocol on biosafety -- NGO influence in the negotiations of the desertification convention -- Non-state influence in the international whaling commission, 1970 to 2006 -- NGO influence on international policy on forest conservation and the trade in forest products -- Reflections on the analytical framework and NGO diplomacy