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Phosphorus, Scarcity of Natural Resources, and the Law

During the last years, the Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Policy has done a lot of research on questions of phosphorus and scarcity of natural resources, as well as on land-use and climate change - from a transdisciplinary point of view. See, among other papers, here.

Felix Ekardt on various international conferences

Since 2007, Felix Ekardt has given speeches and presentations on some 50 international conferences on questions of sustainability, climate change, justice, human rights, phosphorus scarcity, land-use, etc. For details and also for forthcoming speeches, see the list of presentations.

Universalism and Discourse Ethics

The Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Policy has done a lot of research on the normative grounds of sustainability - respectively on the theoretical basis of both ethics and law. The most informative is the big German volume "Theorie der Nachhaltigkeit", but there is also a number of English papers. See, among other papers, here.

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Speeches and Presentations of Felix Ekardt

This is a list of some international speeches and presentations of Felix Ekardt. A longer list including the German speeches can be found on the German page

  1. Globale Gerechtigkeit (international congress of the Wuppertal-Institute in Hamburg, June 2005)
  2. Sustainable Development – the Issue of Inter-Generation Fairness (international congress of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Helsinki, November 2006)
  3. Border Tax Adjustments: Environmental Protection within the Framework of the WTO (held at the Faculty of business science of the TU Darmstadt, January 2007)
  4. Sustainability and Bioenergy (international congress of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Rostock, February 2007)
  5. Nachhaltigkeit in der Unternehmenspraxis (international congress of the faculty of business science of the Montanuniversität Leoben/Austria on economical questions of sustainability, March 2007)
  6. Sustainability and a New Concept of Liberty (international jurisprudential congress of the Norwegian Research Council at the 20th anniversary of the Brundtland reports at the University of Oslo, May 2007)
  7. Legal Aspects of Uranium in Environmental Compartments (international congress of the Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft in Braunschweig about agricultural problems of uranium, June 2007)
  8. A Theory of Sustainability (world-congress of Sustainable Development Research Conference in Västeras, June 2007)
  9. Climate Protection and the Law (European climate protection congress of the European environmental youth associations in Berlin, June 2007)
  10. The Headscarf, the Right and the Good (world congress of the International Law and Society Association in Berlin, July 2007)
  11. Problems of Intergenerational and Global Justice (world congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) in Krakow, August 2007)
  12. Sustainability, Ethics, and Science (international congress of a research network about questions of sustainability in Ferrara, September 2007)
  13. Environmental Taxation, WTO Law, and a New Concept of Liberty (Global Conference on Environmental Taxation in Munich, October 2007)
  14. Issues of Non-Sustainability in Fertiliser Legislation (international congress of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Braunschweig, April 2008)
  15. Competition Law, WTO Law, and Sustainability (international congress of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau and the University of Frankfurt a.M. about competition and sustainability, May 2008)
  16. Sustainability, Justice, and the Law (international congress of a research network for sustainability questions in Bayreuth, August 2008)
  17. Gerechtigkeit und gutes Leben – rechtstheoretische und rechtssoziologische Perspektiven (international congress of the German Association for the Sociology of Law in Luzern, September 2008)
  18. Climate Protection Law and Global Ethics (congress of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, October 2008)
  19. Climate Protection Law, Corporate Responsibility, and the Law (congress of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Macao Consumer Council in Macau, October 2008)
  20. Distributive Justice, Competitiveness, and National/Global Climate Protection (with Antonia von Hövel) (first international online congress on climate protection, November 2008)
  21. Sustainability and Phosphor in Agriculture (international congress of the Julius-Kühn-Instituts/German Federal Ministry for Agriculture in Braunschweig on the problems of phosphorus, November 2008)
  22. Distributive Justice, Competitiveness, and Transnational Climate Protection (congress of the Hans-Jonas-Zentrum/faculty of philosophy of the Freie Universität in Berlin on climate protections and problems of justice, March 2009)
  23. Wird die Demokratie ungerecht? (held at the summer school GlobArt at the monastery Pernegg/Austria, August 2009)
  24. Constitutionalism in Germany, Europe, and China (speech and discussion with Udo Di Fabio at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, September 2009)
  25. Distributive Justice, Competitiveness, and Transnational Climate Protection (world congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) in Beijing, September 2009)
  26. Climate Protection and Social Distributive Justice (round table, invitation by Misereor in Beijing, September 2009)
  27. The Three Constitutional Courts in Europe and Germany (held at the German-Chinese law institute in Beijing, September 2009)
  28. Global Climate Protection Law (held at the Nankai University, School of Law in Tianjin, September 2009)
  29. German and European Climate Protection Law (held at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, September 2009)
  30. Ecological and Social Ambivalencies of Bioenergy (second international online congress on climate protection, November 2009)
  31. Sustainable Germany in a Globalised World (World Climate Summit in Copenhagen, December 2009)
  32. Economic Growth and Distributive Justice (congress of the Austrian Federal Government, the Club of Rome, and others on the future of the idea of growth in Vienna, January 2010)
  33. Participation and Climate Protection (congress of some European environmental research institutes, ministries and environmental NGOs in Prague, March 2010)
  34. Social Distributive Justice and Climate Protection (congress of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Beijing, April 2010)
  35. Climate Policy: From Copenhagen to Mexico City (congress of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Beijing, April 2010)
  36. Climate Justice and the Carbon Budget Approach (session chair at the congress of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Beijing, April 2010)
  37. Climate Change (held at the Center for International Business Ethics in Beijing, April 2010)
  38. Human Rights in the European Union (held at the Peking University, Faculty of Law, April 2010)
  39. Climate Justice and Emissions Trading (congress of the Initiative Psychology in Environmental Protection in Berlin, June 2010)
  40. Sustainability and Economic Growth (congress of the Bundesland Steiermark/ Austria in Graz, June 2010)
  41. European and International Climate Law after Copenhagen (held at the University of Graz/ Austria, July 2010)
  42. Sustainability in Soil Protection, Land Use, and Phosphorus Fertilization (world fertilizer congress of the CIEC in Bucharest, August 2010)
  43. Klimawandel und Klimakultur (congress of the Bundesland Niederösterreich/ Austria in St. Pölten, November 2010)
  44. Intergenerational Justice and the Law (congress of some universities in Paris/ Versailles and Poitiers, December 2010)
  45. Sustainability in Soil Protection, Land Use, and Phosphorus Fertilization (international congress of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Rostock, December 2010)
  46. Phosphorus Scarcity as a Legal Problem (presentation held at Zurich University, March 2011)
  47. Sustainability as a Legal Problem (world congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) in Frankfurt, August 2011)
  48. Toward a New Approach in Discourse Theory of Justice and Law (world congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) in Frankfurt, August 2011)
  49. A Critical Review of Efficiency Ethics (world congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) in Frankfurt, August 2011)
  50. Habermas, Honneth, Discourse Ethics (session chair at the world congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) in Frankfurt, August 2011)
  51. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen ökologisch-sozialer Governance (international congress for sociology of law in Vienna, September 2011)
  52. Sozialrecht (session chair on an international congress for sociology of law in Vienna, September 2011)
  53. Social Awareness for Energy Change (Conference of various universities and public institutions on energy change in Europe in Stettin, September 2011)
  54. International Resource Politics (with Raimund Bleischwitz and Heidi Feldt) (International Workshop of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin, October 2011)
  55. Land-Use, Climate Protection, and Emissions Trading (Global Conference on Environmental Taxation in Madrid, October 2011)
  56. The Right to Food and Water (Water Dialogues in Berlin, January 2012)
  57. Climate Change as a Social and Economic Problem (conference of various universities in Stettin, May 2012)
  58. Human Rights and Climate Change (congress of some European environmental research institutes, ministries and environmental NGOs in Berlin, November 2012)
  59. Soziale Lern- und Transformationsprozesse für die Energiewende (presentation held at Bern University, November 2012)
  60. Nachhaltigkeit im Immobilienbereich (conference of the Austrian real estate branch in Kitzbühel, December 2012)
  61. Nachhaltigkeit und kommunaler Klimaschutz (speech at Klagenfurt University/ Austria, December 2012)
  62. Agricultural Development within the Rural-Urban Continuum (tropics conferende at Hohenheim University, September 2013)
  63. Visions in Science for a Globalized World (conference Visions in Science of Max Planck Society in Dresden, September 2013)