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António Guterres called for greater diplomacy, more climate ambition, better use of technology, more focus on the U.N.'s 17 major goals for 2030 and a renewal of foundational values.
The Trump administration's broadsides against international cooperation embolden nations with poor human rights records and encourage attacks on journalists, experts said.
Huge security threats loom from the crisis in Yemen to Afghanistan's fighting to the U.S.-China trade war.
Their strikes were not affiliated with any political party, but they helped rally support for efforts by international organizations to promote global cutbacks in carbon emissions.
The non-binding deal tries to solve some of the polarizing but age-old issues surrounding people crossing borders.
Negotiators overcame a deadlock on a crucial element about how nations must report their greenhouse gas emissions.
The summit is supposed to work out a "rulebook" for nations to follow to fulfill their Paris Agreement climate pledges.
Ahead of U.N. climate talks, studies show carbon dioxide released in 2018 will be the biggest increase in seven years.
As 200 nations gathered for climate talks, international health experts reported the slow pace of reducing greenhouse gas emissions puts lives and health care systems at risk.
The Group of 20's final communiqué expressed concern about the future direction of the World Trade Organization, which U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to leave.
Global greenhouse gas emissions, rather than fall, rose in 2017 by 0.7 gigatons to 53.5 gigatons, after three years of decreases.
At the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed a vicious attack on the U.S.-hosted world body that he described as a largely usesless "global bureaucracy."
The concept of a demilitarization zone, like the one planned for Idlib, goes back almost a half-millennium to Europe's rules on demolishing forts or prohibiting their reconstruction.
Because these ocean areas and deep seabeds lie beyond national jurisdictions, they fall within a patchwork of laws overseen mostly by U.N.-affiliated international organizations.
The report from the U.N.'s Nobel Prize-winning climate panel aims to strenghten nations' actions under the Paris treaty.
A summit with the U.S. could expand North Korea's little-known involvement with international organizations.
