Overview
- Uruguay assumed the 2026 chair of the Group of 77 and China, with Secretary‑General António Guterres calling the bloc an indispensable pillar of multilateralism.
- In his General Assembly priorities address, Guterres warned of a world “brimming with conflict,” decried “wholesale cuts” to aid, and urged Security Council reform to reflect current realities.
- He pressed for an overhaul of the international financial architecture through the Sevilla Commitment, including tripling multilateral development banks’ lending power and acting earlier on debt distress with greater developing‑country voice.
- On climate, he called for deeper emissions cuts, tripling adaptation finance by 2035, scaled contributions to the Loss and Damage Fund, and a credible path to mobilize about $1.3 trillion annually for developing countries by 2035.
- He moved to operationalize AI governance by standing up an Independent Scientific Panel to report before a July Global Dialogue and proposing a Global Fund to build AI capacity in more than 80 countries.