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While the social economic and cultural impacts of globalization remain deeply contested, there seems to be a growing consensus on the plausibility of it providing mechanisms for resolving global environmental issues. Given the transnational nature of environmental problems it is natural that the solutions offered have to be ones that surpass the jurisdiction of nation-states. By enhancing local-global relations globalization can be seen contributing towards the establishment of a sustainable society. These propositions evidently have a profound impact on green political theory, given that one of its primary objectives is to comprehend the transformation of political communities within the context of the global extent of environmental issues. One approach is to lay the groundwork for an autochthonous concept of citizenship, namely ecological or environmental citizenship. The aim of this article is to scrutinize the interconnections between cosmopolitan deliberations on citizenship, on the one hand, and green political theory's endeavours to conceive its own notion of citizenship, on the other.