Peter Macreadie

Prof. Macreadie is an internationally recognised leader in blue carbon and nature-based climate solutions. He is Director of RMIT University’s Centre for Nature Positive Solutions and Founder/Director of the Blue Carbon Lab. His research integrates ecology, biogeochemistry, engineering, economics, and policy to develop measurable and verifiable climate and biodiversity solutions.

Prof. Macreadie’s work has shaped national and international carbon-accounting frameworks. His research informed the world’s first model-based blue carbon crediting method under the ACCU Scheme and has been cited in more than 40 policy documents, including the EU Green Deal, the World Bank’s Blue Carbon Wealth of Nations, UN Ocean Decade guidance, and reports tabled to the United States Congress.

He has published more than 280 scientific papers, with over 18,000 citations and an h-index of 70, in leading journals such as Science, Nature Climate Change, Nature Ecology & Evolution, One Earth, The Lancet Planetary Health, PNAS and Global Change Biology. He collaborates with more than 1,000 researchers across 60 countries, including many of the world’s most highly cited blue carbon scientists.

Prof. Macreadie has secured more than $42 million in research and partnership funding, leading major interdisciplinary programs across blue carbon, teal carbon, ecosystem restoration, natural capital accounting, aquatic biosecurity, coastal protection, citizen science, microplastics, and offshore decommissioning. His ARC Future Fellowship (2025–2029) focuses on scaling blue carbon through improved measurement, finance, and equitable on-ground implementation.

His contributions to science and policy have been recognised through more than 30 awards, including the 2023 Frontiers Planet Prize (Australia), the 2020 Premier’s Sustainability Award (Victoria), and the 2015 David Syme Prize. Prof. Macreadie also leads the development of open-access tools — such as low-cost greenhouse-gas loggers and satellite-based monitoring systems — now used globally to support high-integrity climate and nature markets.