The current pandemic also provides a crucial opportunity to build a more resilient future, with greater focus on mitigating climate change and fostering digitalisation and inclusion. We welcome the plans to further integrate climate change-related issues into IMF surveillance.
At the ECB, as part of our strategy review, we will examine the risks posed by climate change and how these risks feed into the monetary policy framework. Likewise, the international community has to work together to enhance cross-border payment systems to make them faster, cheaper and more inclusive, and to address the opportunities and challenges of the digitalisation of finance.