Now in its 24th edition, the WER provides a detailed, factual, and up-to-date snapshot of the main global energy variables. Updated annually to reflect the latest energy data, technology and market trends, and government policies, it explores a range of possible energy futures and their implications. The world lacks a safe, low-carbon, and cheap large-scale energy infrastructure. Until we scale up such an energy infrastructure, the world will continue to face two energy problems: hundreds of millions of people lack access to sufficient energy, and the dominance of fossil fuels in our energy. In the next 20 years, almost three billion people will join the middle class, propelling global demand for more and better housing, televisions, cars, food, water, energy, and myriad other goods and services. Two years ago, my country proposed at the United Nations Development Summit to "explore the construction of a global energy internet and promote the use of clean and green methods to. In the critical period of the global response to climate change and the promotion of energy transformation, Xin Baoan, Chairman of the Global Energy Internet Development Cooperation Organization and Chairman of the China Electricity Council, recently delivered a keynote speech entitled "Building. The International Energy Outlook 2023 (IEO2023) explores long-term energy trends across the world through 2050.