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"Which is the greenest, happiest country in the world?"

8 years ago

"Green and pleasant land"

There’s one country that stands out: Costa Rica, which tops the ranking for the third time. It is the happiest and most sustainable country on Earth, according to the Happy Planet Index.

So, what is it doing right?

"A recent Gallup poll found the Central American nation to have the highest level of well-being in the world. It also has some of the longest-lived people: life expectancy there is 78.5 years – older than in the US. But what places the country time and again at the top of the index is that it delivers all this health and happiness while using a mere quarter of the resources that are typically used in the Western world.

How does it do that? Chiefly through a strong commitment to the environment: 99% of the country’s electricity supply is said to come from renewable sources, and the government has pledged to make the country carbon neutral by 2021. Other factors include robust investing in social programmes such as health and education, with public money that has been all the more plentiful since the abolition of the national army in 1949."

source: "The Happy Planet Index"

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/greenest-happiest-country-in-the-world?utm_content=bufferd4038&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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