个人简介：

Catherine E. Lovelock教授，澳大利亚桂冠教授，澳大利亚昆士兰大学理学院、环境学院教授。Catherine E. Lovelock教授是澳大利亚科学院院士。她的研究重点是气候变化对沿海湿地的影响以及沿海生态系统在缓解气候变化和蓝碳方面的作用。Lovelock教授特别感兴趣的是红树林生态学，以及海平面上升对红树林和红树林生态系统碳储存的影响。作为全球知名的生态学家，她是国际气候变化专门委员会湿地章节（2019年）的主要作者，并为实施沿海湿地保护和恢复的国家和国际政策做出贡献，以增强沿海社区的复原力。她的工作对于理解气候变化对自然环境和人类社会的影响具有重要意义。

摘要：

The conservation and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems including mangroves, seagrass, tidal marshes, seaweed beds, and other ecosystems, offers the potential to mitigate climate change while providing a wide range of ecosystem services to coastal communities. The scientific concepts underlying the blue carbon concept have been established for over a decade with tangible outcomes, particularly for mangroves. The growth in awareness of blue carbon has led to policies in Australia and elsewhere that incentivize conservation and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems, but these often remain limited in their application. Some of the barriers to wide-spread implementation are knowing where and how to implement blue carbon projects, as well as how to secure them against the impacts of climate change and ensure they are just and fair, consistent with social and environmental safeguards. The complexity of the challenges requires transdisciplinary science and adaptable processes.