“…Systematic empirical studies show that corruption exacerbates the problem of climate change and has a destructive impact on environmental protection. The imperfect functioning of democratic institutions , low level of economic freedom (Linhartová & Halásková, 2022;Vyas-Doorgapersad et al, 2022;Remeikienė et al, 2022), unbalanced government fiscal policies (Tiganasu et al, 2022), acceptance of bribery within society (Korjonen-Kuusipuro & Wojciechowski, 2022), a lack of business integrity (Bednárová et al, 2021;Nastisin et al, 2021;Erwin et al, 2022) and inefficient work of judicial and regulatory authorities (Piplica, 2021;Salman et al, 2022;Ogunshola et al, 2022) in the country lead to the penetration of corruption schemes into economic life.…”