Abstract
This article discusses the trends of the environmental technological policies and their relationship to the process of globalisation. The history of the last thirty years and the trends of economical globalisation seem to show that the policies of control of emissions, i.e. “end of pipe technologies”, are the main priority. At the same time, the transnational enterprises, supported by the growing commercial liberalisation, have a role with ever more importance in the national and international environmental policies. They exert pressure to include only those environmental problems of interest to developed countries in commercial treaties.References
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