Introduction : secretariats as overlap managers -- Secretariats in theory and practice -- The analytics of influence -- Origins of overlap management in the biodiversity regime -- Complex -- Marketing the climate-biodiversity interface -- Trade-environment politics at the WTO -- The limits of secretariat influence : CITES and the protection -- Of commercially-exploited aquatic species -- Conclusions
Summary
An argument that secretariats -- the administrative arms of international treaties -- are political actors in their own right
