Kai Chan Named One of Canada’s Clean50 for 2020


Kai Chan is a Clean16 Honouree for 2020. The 2020 Clean16 are truly the leaders of the leaders in sustainability in Canada. www.clean50.com.

Kai coordinated an international team of experts on a ground-breaking analysis of the ways forward, culminating in the “Pathways” chapter of the UN Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services report. Within four weeks of publication, the report was covered in 49 languages and 165 nations, with an aggregate circulation of 20.1 billion. He also helped launch, as a Lead Editor, a new journal—People and Nature—which is providing an open-access venue for high-quality interdisciplinary socio-ecological research. Additionally, Dr. Chan’s research has been cited over 13,000 times, including 110 journal articles.