The World Happiness Report reflects a worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and well-being as criteria for government policy. It reviews the state of happiness in the world today and shows how the science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness. The report’s release aligns with the United Nation’s International Day of Happiness, March 20, 2024. (World Happiness Report)
Christopher Barrington-Leigh, Associate Professor at the Institute for Health and Social Policy, is quoted by USA Today.
"The World Happiness Report is changing the conversation about progress and wellbeing. It provides important snapshots of how people around the world feel about the overall quality of their lives," Christopher Barrington-Leigh, professor at McGill University in Quebec and a researcher involved in the report, said in a statement."
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Published on: 23 Mar 2022
In this troubled time of war and pandemic, the World Happiness Report 2022 shows a bright light in dark times. According to the team of international researchers, including McGill University Professor Christopher Barrington-Leigh, the pandemic brought not only pain and suffering but also an increase in social support and benevolence.
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Published on: 18 Mar 2022
The twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be hosted by the United Kingdom, in partnership with Italy. The summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC. More than 190 world leaders will participate, along with tens of thousands of negotiators, government representatives, businesses and citizens for twelve days of talks. (United Nations)
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Published on: 1 Nov 2021
Christopher Barrington-Leigh, Associate Professor at the Institute for Health and Social Policy, is quoted by CBC News.
"…"Canada is one of the happiest places in the world, but it has been a little bit up and down. Now, it starts to look like it's a somewhat steady downward trend for about five years," said Christopher Barrington-Leigh, a happiness economist and associate professor at McGill University's Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Bieler School of Environment."
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Published on: 29 Mar 2021
While happiness may have felt far off as the COVID-19 pandemic raged across the globe, the latest World Happiness Report (WHR) has ranked Canadians in 15th place, slipping down from the 10th position the previous year. The report is released annually by a team of independent researchers and weighs six variables: income, freedom, trust in government, healthy life expectancy, social support, and generosity. (CTV News)
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Published on: 19 Mar 2021
Economic growth is often prescribed as a sure way of increasing the well-being of people in low-income countries, but a study led by McGill and the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) suggests that there may be good reason to question this assumption. The researchers set out to find out how people rate their subjective well-being in societies where money plays a minimal role, and which are not usually included in global happiness surveys.
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Published on: 8 Feb 2021
New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation.
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Published on: 14 Jan 2020
To improve people’s well-being as much as possible in coming decades, policy makers should look beyond narrow economic calculations and prioritize non-material factors when making big decisions.
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Published on: 4 Feb 2019
A major new research partnership has been launched to explore ways of reducing health inequalities in cities around the world.
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Published on: 6 Feb 2018
“With the wind at his back from Paris and a fresh mandate from Canadians, Mr. Trudeau meets provincial and territorial leaders in Vancouver this week to pursue a national climate strategy.” (The Globe and Mail)
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Published on: 29 Feb 2016
The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, will be held in Paris from November 30 to December 11.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2015
The urban street network is one of the most permanent features of cities. Once laid down, the pattern of streets determines urban form and the level of sprawl for decades to come. In the U.S., urban sprawl has become an enduring hallmark of the past century. Yet, there are some glimmers of hope.
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Published on: 15 Jun 2015
