It’s been a tumultuous year in Turtle Bay. Amid new threats to defund the United Nations, the secretary-general and U.N. member states have used the organization’s 80th anniversary to focus on cost-saving and efficiency measures. This effort, known as UN80, has been underway for nearly a year, and while staffing cuts and mergers have helped staunch the bleeding, a critical question remains: How can we pay for the U.N.’s future?
Funding determines what the U.N. can actually do. Whether the challenge is pandemic preparedness, climate adaptation, or digital capacity in low- and middle-income countries, the U.N. needs capital to translate scientific consensus and political agreement into action.
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