UN General Assembly Opens 81st Session as 193 States Tackle Wars, Climate and 2030 Goals
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Updated · UN News · Sep 17
UN General Assembly Opens 81st Session as 193 States Tackle Wars, Climate and 2030 Goals
3 articles · Updated · UN News · Sep 17
Summary
New York hosts the UN General Assembly’s 81st-session high-level week, bringing leaders together for talks shaped by geopolitical tensions, overlapping crises and strain on multilateral cooperation.
22 September opens the General Debate, where all 193 member states are due to outline priorities, while much of the real bargaining will unfold in hundreds of bilateral and multilateral meetings.
18 September starts with the SDG Moment, focusing on how to accelerate the 17 global goals with less than five years left before the 2030 deadline.
23-25 September then shifts to climate action, sea-level rise and pandemic preparedness, with leaders set to discuss renewable energy, climate finance, health-system resilience and fairer access to vaccines and medicines.
29 September closes the main run of meetings with a nuclear-disarmament session, as António Guterres enters the final UNGA opening of his term before leaving office on 31 December 2026.