o:2037 EU Climate Change Policies and Civil Society Lobbying en Abstract: The paper analyses EU energy and environment governance from the approach of actor-centered institutionalism. It aims to dissect the specific type of actor within the institutional frameworks of EU, namely the civil society and its increasing influence. The behaviour and various forms of impact, lobbying and negotiation are studied, within a framework of theory of social dynamics. As the dominant structural feature of the European Union are the multi-level governance networks rather than hierarchical political authority, such networks encompass member state representatives, networks linking the national and the European levels of decision-making, and networks linking public, private and civil society actors across policy sectors and political levels. Alike in other policy areas in the multilevel system of the EU, an assortment of actors drafts the environment and energy policy, and they come from the institutional and non-institutional ranks. Despite the academic discussion of the legitimacy of civil society’s role as a contributor in international political arenas or the real effect it has in influencing governments, we present the rising official and unofficial influence of the third sector in the climate change arena. Keywords: Lobbying, civil society, EU energy policy, climate change, influence, NGO, environment. 91552100 116162825 1552101 2683-3409 2023-05-19T15:00:56.235Z 44 no 46 Ana Bovan Fakultet za menadžment - Univerzitet Metropolitan 0000-0001-8945-7143 Nenad Perić Институт за српску културу Приштина – Лепосавић person 0000-0002-8332-0805 application/pdf 79084 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:2037 no yes 1 70 92000001 71A06 International journal of economics and law 11 32 11 21 2021