Jixi Gao

Director, Satellite Application Center for Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China

Prof. Dr. Jixi Gao is Chief Scientist of the Satellite Application Center for Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China. He serves as vice president of academic groups such as the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences and the Ecological Society of China, and a member of the National Committee of Experts on Ecological Environmental Protection.  

He has long been engaged in research on ecological fields, such as regional ecological assessment and sustainable development, construction of national ecological security pattern, and the restoration models of degraded ecosystems.  

Prof. Gao took the lead in proposing the concept of “red lines” for ecological protection. His proposal of climate change response program based on the concept was selected by the United Nations Climate Summit as one of the preferred nature-based solutions (NBS) and one of the 16 examples of the most ambitious initiatives for raising climate ambition and accelerating action, which provides a Chinese model for the fulfillment of international conventions around the globe. He led the compilation of the China Biodiversity National Situation Study, which comprehensively analyzed and assessed China's biodiversity, constructed large-scale ecological corridors connecting 97% of China's nature reserves, and scientifically solved the long-standing problems of isolated ecological protection and fragmentation of biological habitats in China.