The paper discusses some aspects concerning environmental issues considered from an economic perspective, since economic globalization as well as ecological globalization follows new ways of conditioning each other. In the past the most important thing was the impact of the environmental protection pressure - soil deterioration, water system, the atmosphere and the forests - uponeconomical perspectives. In the recent past years the society had to face the quick growth of the economical interdependency among nations, but also the environmental interdependency among them is being accelerated. Economy and environmental issues interfere more and more with each other - on a local, regional, national and global level - forming a network of cause and effect.