In 2025, Secretary-General António Guterres launched UN80 as a major reform initiative coinciding with the organisation’s 80th anniversary and aimed at overhauling the UN system to make it more “effective, cost-efficient, and responsive”. While this significant milestone is a moment of celebration, the prevailing mood has been sombre, as the organisation faces what many regard as an existential crisis. UN80 is focused on achieving efficiency gains and cost reductions by eliminating redundancies, streamlining processes and relocating services to low-cost locations, among others. The reform effort has been launched in the context of a liquidity crisis facing the UN—largely driven by member states’ failure to pay their assessed contributions in full and on time—that has forced the world body to operate in a resource-constrained environment, leading to a hiring freeze and reduced services. Funding cuts are already severely undermining the UN’s humanitarian efforts to alleviate human suffering. They are also expected to have an acute impact on UN peacekeeping operations—with the US (apportioned to pay 27 percent of the assessed peacekeeping budget) indicating that it will entirely forego its contribution in its 2026 fiscal year. In anticipation of potential funding shortfalls, the UN has apparently developed a contingency plan involving deep budget cuts across all peacekeeping missions. But this idea is that way more needs to be done to turn the UN ship around. Common sense measures such as removing the veto vote and substituting it with a 75% of SC mandate will unleash effective policy and give all countries reason to not just maintain but increase funding. The will give reason for middle states, like Pakistan, Nigeria, Canada, South Korea and Australia, who all benefit from a strong United Nations, to want to increase funding for this most important institution.