The United Nations is facing a political and financial crisis as wars, climate change and geopolitical divisions test the multilateral system.
With the Global South demanding a greater voice and the world moving towards a new, more multipolar order, can the UN reinvent itself?
On this episode of Bigger Than Five Ghida Fakhry speaks to former UNDP Administrator and UN Under-Secretary-General Achim Steiner about rebuilding trust and confronting threats that cross borders, from climate change to artificial intelligence.
“Our vulnerabilities will not be managed if we simply turn inwards and away from each other,” he warns.
Steiner argues that “the future is not written” — but says the world must rediscover its shared interests before it is too late.
