UK fails to improve on record low ranking in global table of corruption

Despite former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador's promises to tackle corruption and return stolen assets to the people, his six-year term ended without any convictions or recovered assets,

it added

These factors have obstructed adoption of the ambitious policies and measures needed to address climate change, favouring the interests of narrow groups over the common good,

TI said

Two of the biggest challenges humanity faces are strongly intertwined: corruption and the climate crisis,

TI said in the foreword to this year's index

But now, some governments are going further, undermining or politicising anti-corruption frameworks and allowing erosion of the rule of law,

they wrote on Tuesday

Numerous reforms erode anti-corruption checks and bypass public consultation,

the report said