Well-known is it that the Environment is a pressing concern in the world today. Firstly, the Impact of Globalisation on the Environment. Globalisation as most people realte it to, results in greater pollution and natural resource depletion due to increasing consumption and economic activity. Though there are benefits of globalisation, but the impacts on the environment are almost always negative. The widely publicised "Ozone Layer Depletion" can probably be attributed to chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

This Hole in the ozone layer has largely caused the world to work together to remedy it. Though the hole is still present to this day, efforts made by countries like the Montreal Protocol, have actually increased the connectivity of economies and the ways of life across the world. The environment also has its impacts on globalisation. Global environmental performance have international impacts on the world, whether good or bad.

Generally notorious is the problem of excessive green-house gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol, designed to combat such a problem, requires countries to reduce gas emissions. There is thus a need to bring countries together to make the Kyoto Protocol work. Exceptions would reduce the success of such a Protocol, for example, the United States of America's refusal to participate in this.

Transboundary pollutions also bring about globalisation. Oil Spills which spread miles over oceans and saes cost millions to clean up. Many countries would be affected as the oil washes up on shores in the region of the spill. Thus these countries also have to take action and chip in to clean up the spill. In the present world, the environment in a country comes under the jurisdiction of other nations.

Waste disposal is also an act which comes under much judgement from the global community. The status of the environment affects the entire globe, and because of this, the world is linked together in a quest to protect as much of the environment as possible.

And thus, as this introduction to Environmental Globalisation implies, the environment contributes to globalisation and vice-versa.

~Sean~