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To mark Sustainable Mobility Week, we take a look back at an event that greatly contributed to its development: the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. On Sunday, September 8, Paris said goodbye to its Games with the closing ceremony of the Paralympics. Games that were a huge sporting and popular success, but also a success in terms of sustainable mobility. Also known as «ecomobility», it aims to reconcile people's need to travel with the need to reduce the carbon impact of transport. For these Olympic Games, Paris 2024 had set itself strong and inspiring ambitions.

Obesity: a major and growing public health problem Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI[1]) equal to or greater than 30, and has a significant impact on the health of those concerned. Caused by a high-calorie diet, lack of physical activity and predisposing genetic factors, obesity is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases. Indeed, obesity leads to intermediate risk factors such as hypertension, dyslipidemia[2], insulin resistance and systemic inflammation, increasing the likelihood of serious pathologies such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers.

By Jean de Boisfleury, Director and Loïck ULLIAC, Consultant Ecological challenges, particularly those linked to the reduction of greenhouse gases, call for greater use of public transport. But in a context of budgetary constraints, we still need to identify the levers that will make these modes of transport truly attractive. In a few pioneering conurbations, free public transport has begun to take hold. But under what conditions? Is it really compatible with the "supply shock" called for by the Union des Transports Publics? And could it be rolled out nationwide?

GLOBAL RUSH TO DECARBONIZE OUR INDUSTRIES In the face of successive crises, this is not a choice, it's an emergency of which every nation is now aware. Europe has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, while China is catching its breath after the health crisis and rushing with all its might towards the energy transition. The countries of South and East Asia are determined to position themselves in decarbonized products. Against a backdrop of trade war, the Americans are protecting their economy with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and injecting tens of billions of dollars into the climate component of their stimulus package. In short, we are experiencing a global rush to decarbonize our industries. The economies that achieve it first will have a formidable competitive advantage.