Chief Adviser’s call to save planet

Chief Adviser of the interim government Professor Muhammad Yunus has said that the climate problem is becoming more and more serious day by day. It is threatening the human civilization. In this situation, he has called for building a new civilization to save the world.

The adviser said this while speaking at the opening session of the World Leaders Climate Action Summit in COP29, held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan on Wednesday noon.

A new life-style based on ‘zero waste and zero carbon’ is needed to protect the planet from climate catastrophes.

He presented his longstanding dream of creating a new world of three zeroes- zero net carbon emissions, zero wealth concentration, through building social businesses only, and zero unemployment by turning themselves into entrepreneurs.

Defining the social business as a non-dividend business addressed to solve social and environmental problems, he said a vast part of social businesses will focus on protecting the environment and mankind.

“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 civilisation,” he said.

“We need to mobilise our intellectual, financial and youth power to lay the foundation for a new civilisation -- a self-preserving and self-reinforcing civilisation. We, the human inhabitants of this planet are the cause of the destruction of the planet,” he said.

Prof Yunus said the people are doing it deliberately and they have chosen a lifestyle which works against the environment, while they justify this with an economic framework, which is considered as natural as the planetary system.