7 billion neighbors

How to promote soft mobility in the city?

Audio 48:29

Bicycle taxi drivers in Bujumbura, Burundi.

© PHIL MOORE/AFP

By: Amélie Beaucour

1 min

Mobility is a major challenge for the climate.

It is, for example, the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in France, ie 135 million tonnes.

And 70% of those emissions come from cars and vans.

Transport is also the only sector to have increased its CO2 emissions over the past 30 years.

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As urbanization continues to grow, the need to develop other more sustainable modes of mobility and reduce car dependency is growing.

Countries like the Netherlands or the Scandinavian countries developed the practice of cycling very early on.

While fuel prices are rising, in connection with the war in Ukraine, what solutions are available to us to get around without polluting and at a lower cost?

How to redevelop cities hitherto built for the car?

-

Frédéric Héran

, transport economist at

the University of Lille 1

, researcher at the Lille Center for Sociological and Economic Studies and Research

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Julien De Labaca

, mobility consultant, founder of the consulting firm

Le facilitator de mobility

► An interview with

Laure Broulard

, RFI correspondent in Kigali to talk about the city's self-service bicycle system

Musical programming:

► Diom Gnakou Fi

- Cheikh Ibra Fam, Mo'Kalamity

► Watina

- Calypso Pink

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