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side in terms of the green initiatives would be to improve disclosure, which, under any scenario and initiatives, remains a critical and essential building block to make all the others work. aside from that, another critical initiative is the development on a green taxonomy that is consistent across the financial sector so that we do not end up working at cross purposes and can leverage upon each other ’ s efforts. i am happy to say that the bank of thailand has been working very closely with our colleagues at the securities exchange commission, the office of the insurance commission, the stock exchange of thailand and the ministry of finance to try to develop a consistent taxonomy in green that extends across the financial sector in thailand. also, we hope that this will eventually be a taxonomy that is consistent across the region as well as within the asean region. this is particularly important because the climate challenge will be, in many ways, won or lost here in asia. while everybody has a lot to do, we have seen clear initiatives being taken in europe, and obviously, more needs to be done both in europe and the united states. given where we are in our cycle of development, a lot of climate challenges is going to take place in asia, not particularly within asean itself, but also within broader asia. what happens here is important and will be relevant in affecting how successful we respond collectively and globally to the climate challenge. the second trend that is very important and that we have to make sure that we are wellpositioned for is digital. on this front, i am happy to report that we have made better progress than we have made on the green or climate front. the bank of thailand, in particular, has been actively engaged throughout and has not been behind the curve. we have demonstrated in terms of outcomes that we have done and have not lagged others in this increasingly important area. page 7 of 9 we have put in place, the kind of digital infrastructure that we need to allow for digital financial services that are likely to become more and more important in the future. this has been something that is top - of - mind for us and remains one of our key strategic priorities. what have we done in this area? first, on digital payments, we were among the first countries to have introduced the standardized qr code to assist payments. we have seen a very good uptake on that. qr codes in thailand are now in very broad use. i am happy to see that it really helps to improve access and inclusion. we have