Media reporting and academic research into young climate civil society organisations (CSOs) often focus on organisations using direct, confrontational and often controversial actions, but to what extent is this a true picture of young climate organisations? This paper examines the differences between young and old climate and environmental CSOs in the Netherlands. Drawing on niche theory, it uses set-theoretic typology building to examine the ways in which 39 young and old Dutch CSOs construct configurational organisational niches by narrowing down their membership and issue, using innovative strategies and developing stable financing sources. It finds that although there are significant differences between young and old CSOs in how they narrow down their membership and issues, their strategies are not significantly different: in other words, a focus on civil disobedience alone does not paint the whole picture of young climate groups.

对年轻气候民间社会组织 (CSO) 的媒体报道和学术研究通常侧重于采取直接、对抗性且经常引起争议的行动的组织，但这在多大程度上是年轻气候组织的真实写照？本文探讨了荷兰年轻和年长的气候和环境公民社会组织之间的差异。借鉴利基理论，它使用集合论类型学构建来研究 39 个年轻和年长的荷兰公民社会组织如何通过缩小其成员和问题、使用创新策略和开发稳定的融资来源来构建配置组织利基。研究发现，尽管新老公民社会组织在缩小成员范围和解决问题方面存在显着差异，但他们的策略并没有显着不同：换句话说，