Zero Exclusion, Zero Carbon, Zero Poverty : a winning combination for 2030

In 2015, the United Nations adopted an ambitious roadmap: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 17 objectives for eradicating poverty, protecting the planet and addressing the issues of inequality, exclusion and injustice by 2030. Unlike their predecessors, the Millennium Development Goals, all countries are now “sustainably developing” nations.

Two years after their adoption, the 10^th edition of the Convergences World Forum contributes to an abundance of projects serving the common good: everywhere, in cities, regions, states, within civil society, actors come together to co-construct a zero exclusion, zero carbon & zero poverty world. To succeed in this ambitious agenda, it is crucial that all actors push in the same direction. Beyond governments, all social and economic actors must take control of the issues and work to create solutions. And it is to this synergy of actors that the Convergences World Forum has contributed since its creation ten years ago. By serving as a sounding board for all the innovative solutions that emerge every day, co-built by economic; solidarity-based and public actors.

Today, we, Convergences’s main partners, are calling for innovation, creativity and leadership to invent solutions and partnerships in a zero exclusion, zero carbon & zero poverty world. “Together, let’s innovate for a 3Zero world!” is to put everyone’s responsibility at the center, because we can all, individually or collectively, act for the 3Zero, Convergences’s motto since 2015. Innovation means understanding all the wealth that exists in the world and finding smart and sustainable ways for everyone to benefit from it. The actors of change that you are have a key role to play in innovation. The 17 SDGs and the 3Zero combination can transform the world in the coming years. And we do not want to miss this historic opportunity!

The 3Zero Global Alliance, launched on the occasion of this tenth anniversary, will hopefully extend our contribution to the debate at a global level by promoting and supporting all actors around the world in order to accelerate co-operation for a fair and sustainable change.