Environmentalists, for instance, led the charge for improved transparency of WTO negotiations and dispute settlement and spurred many governments to take more seriously the need for stakeholder participation in domestic trade policy-making processes. Since 1999, failed efforts to launch a Millennium Round of negotiations at the Seattle WTO Ministerial have served as a reminder of the power of environmental constituencies to alter the political feasibility of new trade deals. The views expressed in this essay are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Commonwealth Secretariat.