This first project of One Planet Business aims to inspire and catalyse change towards mobility and access solutions within planetary limits.

Passenger transport is placing an ever-growing demand on global resources and the climate’s absorptive capacity. Currently, the final demand for personal mobility represents 26% of the word’s CO2 emissions. Current technological advancements in personal mobility are not keeping pace with the rate of growth or the scale of the challenge, not least the minimum 60% reductions required in CO2 emissions. It seems clear that further solutions have to be explored.

One Planet Business Personal Mobility will explore the fundamental drivers for change, such as:

• identifying the barriers impeding a complete technological revolution for low-carbon mobility;
• exploring the possibilities for switching to low-impact transport and how this could be encouraged;
• questioning the value of such high levels of mobility in promoting a better quality of life and identifying which areas of mobility consumers may actually like to reduce (e.g. commuting);
• understanding how shifts in lifestyles could reduce personal mobility;
• thinking through the economic consequences of changing mobility patterns; and
• exploring access to key services such as shops, schools, hospitals and employers, with reduced personal mobility.

The first process addressing personal mobility starts in March 2007 and will run for 10 months with 30-40 participating organisations.