Role mezinárodních nevládních organizací v environmentální politice: mechanismy obhajoby, vliv a omezení. Komparativní analýza Greenpeace a WWF (2015–2024)

This thesis examines how Greenpeace International and WWF International register influence in international climate and biodiversity negotiations between 2015 and 2024. Employing a qualitative comparative case study across four advocacy episodes — each organisation examined at COP28 (UNFCCC, 2023) and CBD COP15 (2022) — it combines Keck and Sikkink's four advocacy mechanisms with the multidimensional influence framework developed by Betsill and Corell to assess where and how two contrasting strategies leave observable traces. The analysis finds that textual influence on headline outcomes was uniformly low across all four episodes; instead, influence is patterned by strategic orientation and contextual fit. Greenpeace's outsider repertoire of symbolic and accountability politics registered most clearly on discursive and agenda-setting dimensions, while WWF's insider repertoire of information and leverage politics registered most clearly through its documented implementation support in the biodiversity case. Major textual shifts are more plausibly attributed to the density of the wider NGO field and state coalitions than to any single organisation's campaign. The thesis contributes a conditional and multidimensional account of NGO influence that specifies when and where activist versus partnership strategies register most effectively in contemporary environmental governance.