[REPLAY] Tribunal for the Mobility of Future Generations

Should we stop traveling?

The Urban School, in partnership with the Keolis Group and the media Usbek & Rica, organised a session of the Tribunal for the Mobility of Future Generations to debate this question

While 26% of CO2 emissions are linked to mobility, it is legitimate to question our travel habits. Concepts can intertwine between climate imperatives, social justice, desires, and constraints. In the name of future generations, those who are not yet born but who will inherit our choices, the court, the jury, and the public mobilized on their behalf during this Tribunal.

Three experts were called to testify at the bar by the prosecutor and the defense attorney: Charlotte Halpern a researcher at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) and director of the Institut pour les transformations environnementales at Sciences Po, Philippe Bihouix, CEO of the groupe AREP and author of works on the issue of non-renewable resources and associated technological challenges, and Sylvie Landriève, director of the Forum Vies Mobiles (a research institute on mobility) and specialist in the evaluation of public policies.

Their testimony shed light on the jury, chaired by Johan Drouhin and Hugo-Louis Leclerc, randomly selected from Urban School students, who unanimously voted "No." The public vote, however, was more nuanced, with 44% voting "Yes."