In order to accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the administration is thinking of adopting Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus’ “three zero” philosophy, reports BSS.
Government policymakers claim that by successfully implementing the “three zero” idea at both the public and private sectors, the nation could easily meet the SDG targets.
A strong case has been made by Professor Muhammad Yunus for world leaders to create a “World of Three Zeros”—zero unemployment, zero poverty, and zero net carbon emissions.
According to researchers, the Three Zero idea is a popular and elective approach to guarantee economic independence, create jobs, and safeguard the environment in the modern world. The three zero theory is an economic and social perspective. According to them, youth initiative, technological utilisation, social business, and sound governance may all aid in achieving the three zero goals.
Prof. Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank, is widely admired for his three zero theory.
The administration is attempting to incorporate the “three zero” approach with SDG aims, the Principal Coordinator on SDG affairs told BSS.
A workshop involving public and private officials has already been held in this regard.
“We want to create awareness on the ‘three zero’ at all levels in the interest of sustainable development,” she added.
Prof. Yunus did not intend to force the theory on the activities, but the government wants to encourage people to use it, Lamiya Morshed said, adding that the theory is taken into consideration in all SDG implementation efforts.
She claimed that aside from implementing the SDGs, the administration has not taken any significant theoretical initiatives.
The Chief Adviser emphasised the necessity of developing a new lifestyle based on zero waste and zero carbon in order to safeguard the globe from climate disasters during his speech at the climate summit (COP-29) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
“In order to survive, we need to create another culture. A counter-culture, which is based on a different life-style. It is based on zero waste. It will limit consumption to essential needs, leaving no residual waste,” Yunus told the summit.
According to Prof. Yunus, this lifestyle will also be zero carbon—that is, it will solely use renewable energy instead of fossil fuels—and it will be based on an economy that predominantly relies on social enterprise and zero personal profit.
He claimed that a large portion of social firms will concentrate on safeguarding the environment and people, characterising them as non-dividend companies that address social and environmental issues. “Human lives will not only be protected but qualitatively enhanced through affordable healthcare and education. It will facilitate entrepreneurship for the youth. Young people will get prepared through new education of entrepreneurship. Education of creating job seekers will be replaced by entrepreneurship-focused education,” the Chief Adviser said.
He said the young people will love that life style as a choice, while each young person will grow up as a three zero person- zero net carbon emissions, zero wealth concentration, through building social businesses only, and zero unemployment by turning themselves into entrepreneurs.
“Each person will grow up as a ‘three zero’ person, and remain a ‘three zero’ person all his/her life. That will create the new civilization,” he said.
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