If leading industrial countries don’t hold themselves to the highest standards of accountability and integrity, the implicit message to others is:  aim low and you might get away with it, too. We must aspire to something better.

The leading industrial economies of the G20 – both established and emerging powers – account for some 80 per cent of world trade and two-thirds of the world’s population. They have considerable influence.  By strengthening their commitment to accountability, integrity and transparency, they can set new global standards and turn a page on the old habits that fostered crises in the past.

That’s why we actively engage with the G20 and similar intergovernmental bodies, reminding leaders that transparency is a beam of light into the shadowy corners of society where corruption can fester. We make targeted recommendations based on expertise from our global movement – including chapters in 17 of the 19 G20 states and a liaison office at the European Union, the group’s twentieth member. We show governments where reforms are needed to close off loopholes and fill gaps in global systems. And we push leaders to enforce the regulations they’ve already agreed to, so that criminal behaviour is prosecuted and corruption has nowhere to hide. Go back to the problem.