 The fusion sector is growing rapidly, with recent scientific and technological breakthroughs, increased investment in private companies and new projects getting off the ground. People may say that fusion will always be the energy of the distant future, but new scientific milestones suggest otherwise. Recently, European scientists generated a small star in a laboratory and briefly kept it stable. Fusion researchers in the United States also achieve net energy for the first time and the enormous multinational project ETER has reached its construction phase. Fusion science is moving in the right direction, but the ultimate price for humanity will be when all these projects around the world allow us to harness enough energy to bring fusion power into our homes and industries. With the right economics and political will, the dream of limitless clean energy would then become a reality. The IAEA has been bringing international fusion scientists together for many decades and has helped make today's developments a reality through international cooperation, and we continue to be at the forefront of advancing and sharing scientific knowledge on fusion. Because the IAEA promotes science and it promotes development, we know exactly what abundant energy means to communities around the world. Energy means food, warmth, economic progress, health. Clean and abundant energy means that the generations to come could have true sustainable prosperity.