* * * Your Excellency, Ambassador Mavroyiannis, Former Minister, Professor Flogaitis, Esteemed colleagues, Dear students, Ladies and Gentlemen First of all, I would like to thank the organisers, the Society of International Economic Law and the European University of Cyprus for the kind invitation to address a conference that features such a dynamic group of participants, comprising distinguished Professors, but also young scholars from the legal profession with promising futures.
As we contemplate the future – not least the challenges posed by the net zero target – the issue 2/3  BIS central bankers' speeches  we need to debate is whether those frameworks are what we need for the next 30 years. What changes do we foresee? Are our frameworks helping us to manage climate, demographic or technological change?