General Assembly, the body's Secretary-General António Guterres issued a dire warning in an opening speech on Tuesday: "Our world is in big trouble.".
"We are gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction," he said.But while that safe passage deal is allowing grain exports to ameliorate the global food crisis, Guterres warned there was another on the horizon due to a shortage in fertilizer -- saying that while the current problems can be chalked up to distribution issues, the world's hunger may soon be the result of not having enough to go around at all."Without action now, the global fertilizer shortage will quickly morph into a global food shortage," he said.The secretary-general then alluded to the U.N.'s next major initiative: a proposal to export Russian fertilizer components through Ukraine.The secretary-general on Tuesday also spoke to the even broader-sweeping challenges of the day, and advocated for even more ambitious -- or, to some, radical -- plans to address them.Those funds should be re-directed in two ways: to countries suffering loss and damage caused by the climate crisis, and to people struggling with rising food and energy prices.".
While addressing women's rights, Guterres also hit on a domestic matter: the overturning of Roe vMore broadly, Guterres said that gender inequality is "going backwards" and "women's lives are getting worse, from poverty, to choices around sexual and reproductive health, to their personal security."
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