Felix Ekardt, lawyer, philosopher, and sociologist, is working as a Professor for Environmental Law at the University of Bremen, Faculty of Law, Germany since 2003. He is visiting lecturer at the University of Leipzig, Faculty of Philosophy, since 2002; author for various national newspapers (Frankfurter Rundschau, Financial Times Deutschland, TAZ, Capital u.a.); political advisor on questions of climate protection for German Federal and Laender ministries and parliaments (e.g. for the Federal Government on questions of long-term climate protection strategies); also member of various advisory commissions.

For Climate 2008, he submitted the paper "Distributive Justice, Competitiveness, and National/ Global Climate Protection: "One human -- one emission right" which he introduces briefly in the folowing podcast.