The Secretary-General calls for making 2025 a year in which the world no longer remains in a state of fragmentation

Guterres explained in his New Year message that during the year 2024 ‘Hope was scarce’He added that the ongoing wars cause a tremendous amount of pain, suffering and waves of displacement, and forms of inequality and divisions prevail that fuel hotbeds of tension and deepen mistrust.

He pointed out that the highest annual temperature rates ever recorded during the last ten years, including 2024, adding: “We are witnessing climate collapse right before our eyes. But we have to get off this path to destruction, and we don’t have any time to lose.”.

He stressed that in 2025, countries must put the world on a safer path by significantly reducing emissions and supporting the transition towards a renewable future.

Wheel of change

The Secretary-General said: “Even in the darkest moments, I saw how hope drives change.”.

He added that he sees hope embodied in activists, young and old, raising their voices for progress, in humanitarian heroes overcoming enormous obstacles to provide support to the most vulnerable people, in developing countries struggling to achieve financial and climate justice, and in world leaders. When they met in September to adopt Future Charter.

He explained that this Charter is a new impetus to build peace through disarmament and non-proliferation, and to reform the global financial system, so that it becomes a tool that supports and represents all countries, and to work to provide more opportunities for women and youth, and to build safety barriers, so that technologies give priority to people instead of Making profits, for rights rather than runaway algorithms, and for upholding the values ​​and principles enshrined in human rights, international law and the Charter of the United Nations.

Guterres said: “There are no guarantees of what 2025 will be like. However, I pledge to stand with everyone who works to create a more peaceful, equal, stable and healthier future for all people.”.