Dr Guangwu Chen
Postdoctoral Rese Fellow Decarbonis
School of Business

Researcher biography
Guangwu is a postdoc research fellow at UQ Business School, studying corporate decarbonization strategy, and developing the tools for investment and debt portfolio management to align with 1.5 °C carbon budget and Climate-related Financial Disclosures. Guangwu’s passion is to bridge industrial demands and university-based research, applying scientific methods and theories to industrial practices and enhancing corporate sustainability.
Journal Articles
Zhu, Yuhan, Chen, Guangwu, Xu, Lixiao, Zhang, Ying, Wang, Yafei and Liang, Sai (2022). Inequality of household consumption and PM2.5 footprint across socioeconomic groups in China. Environmental Research Letters, 17 (4) 044019, 044019. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac4a9d
Goodwin, Kylie, Wiedmann, Thomas, Chen, Guangwu and Teh, Soo Huey (2021). Benchmarking urban performance against absolute measures of sustainability-A review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 314 128020, 128020. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128020
Sun, Mingxing, Chen, Guangwu, Xu, Xiangbo, Zhang, Linxiu, Hubacek, Klaus and Wang, Yutao (2021). Reducing Carbon Footprint Inequality of Household Consumption in Rural Areas: Analysis from Five Representative Provinces in China. Environmental Science & Technology, 55 (17), 11511-11520. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01374
Wiedmann, Thomas, Chen, Guangwu, Owen, Anne, Lenzen, Manfred, Doust, Michael, Barrett, John and Steele, Kristian (2021). Three-scope carbon emission inventories of global cities. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 25 (3), 735-750. doi: 10.1111/jiec.13063
Chen, Guangwu, Cheng, Mingming, Edwards, Deborah and Xu, Lixiao (2020). COVID-19 pandemic exposes the vulnerability of the sharing economy: a novel accounting framework. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 30 (5), 1141-1158. doi: 10.1080/09669582.2020.1868484
Huang, Rui, Chen, Guangwu, Lv, Guonian, Malik, Arunima, Shi, Xunpeng and Xie, Xiaotian (2020). The effect of technology spillover on CO2 emissions embodied in China-Australia trade. Energy Policy, 144. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111544
Huang, Qiao, Chen, Guangwu, Wang, Yafei, Xu, Lixiao and Chen, Wei-Qiang (2020). Identifying the socioeconomic drivers of solid waste recycling in China for the period 2005-2017. Science of the Total Environment, 725 138137, 138137. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138137
Huang, Qiao, Chen, Guangwu, Wang, Yafei, Chen, Shaoqing, Xu, Lixiao and Wang, Rui (2020). Modelling the global impact of China's ban on plastic waste imports. Resources Conservation and Recycling, 154 104607, 104607. doi: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104607
Cheng, Mingming, Chen, Guangwu, Wiedmann, Thomas, Hadjikakou, Michalis, Xu, Lixiao and Wang, Yafei (2020). The sharing economy and sustainability - assessing Airbnb's direct, indirect and induced carbon footprint in Sydney. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 28 (8), 1083-1099. doi: 10.1080/09669582.2020.1720698
Chen, Guangwu, Zhu, Yuhan, Wiedmann, Thomas, Yao, Lina, Xu, Lixiao and Wang, Yafei (2019). Urban-rural disparities of household energy requirements and influence factors in China: Classification tree models. Applied Energy, 250, 1321-1335. doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.170
Chen, Guangwu, Shan, Yuli, Hu, Yuanchao, Tong, Kangkang, Wiedmann, Thomas, Ramaswami, Anu, Guan, Dabo, Shi, Lei and Wang, Yafei (2019). Review on City-Level Carbon Accounting. Environmental Science & Technology, 53 (10), 5545-5558. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b07071
Fry, Jacob, Lenzen, Manfred, Jin, Yutong, Wakiyama, Takako, Baynes, Timothy, Wiedmann, Thomas, Malik, Arunima, Chen, Guangwu, Wang, Yafei, Geschke, Arne and Schandl, Heinz (2018). Assessing carbon footprints of cities under limited information. Journal of Cleaner Production, 176, 1254-1270. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.073
Chen, Guangwu, Hadjikakou, Michalis, Wiedmann, Thomas and Shi, Lei (2018). Global warming impact of suburbanization: The case of Sydney. Journal of Cleaner Production, 172, 287-301. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.161
Baynes, Timothy M., Crawford, Robert H., Schinabeck, Judith, Bontinck, Paul-Antoine, Stephan, André, Wiedmann, Thomas, Lenzen, Manfred, Kenway, Steven, Yu, Man, Teh, Soo Huey, Lane, Joe, Geschke, Arne, Fry, Jacob and Chen, Guangwu (2018). The Australian industrial ecology virtual laboratory and multi-scale assessment of buildings and construction. Energy and Buildings, 164, 14-20. doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.12.056
Chen, Guangwu, Hadjikakou, Michalis and Wiedmann, Thomas (2017). Urban carbon transformations: unravelling spatial and inter-sectoral linkages for key city industries based on multi-region input-output analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production, 163, 224-240. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.04.046
Chen, Guangwu, Wiedmann, Thomas, Wang, Yafei and Hadjikakou, Michalis (2016). Transnational city carbon footprint networks - Exploring carbon links between Australian and Chinese cities. Applied Energy, 184, 1082-1092. doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.08.053
Chen, Guangwu, Wiedmann, Thomas, Hadjikakou, Michalis and Rowley, Hazel (2016). City Carbon Footprint Networks. Energies, 9 (8), 602. doi: 10.3390/en9080602
Wiedmann, Thomas O., Chen, Guangwu and Barrett, John (2016). The Concept of City Carbon Maps: A Case Study of Melbourne, Australia. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 20 (4), 676-691. doi: 10.1111/jiec.12346
Deng, Na, Zhang, Qiang, Chen, Guang-wu, Qi, Chang-qing, Cui, Wen-qian, Zhang, Yu-feng and Ma, Hong-ting (2015). Optimal scenario balance of reduction in costs and greenhouse gas emissions for municipal solid waste management. Journal of Central South University, 22 (3), 887-894. doi: 10.1007/s11771-015-2598-3
Deng, Na, Wang, Wei-wei, Chen, Guang-wu, Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Yu-feng and Ma, Hong-ting (2013). Pyrolysis characteristics of rubber compositions in medical waste. Journal of Central South University, 20 (9), 2466-2471. doi: 10.1007/s11771-013-1758-6
Deng, Na, Chen, Guangwu, Cui, Wenqian, Zhang, Yufeng and Ma, Hongting (2013). Municipal greenhouse gases inventory and analysis: A case of Tianjin. Tianjin Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue yu Gongcheng Jishu Ban)/Journal of Tianjin University Science and Technology, 46 (7), 635-640. doi: 10.11784/tdxb20130711
Conference Paper
Ely, Romulo N., Carneiro, Diana, Chen, Guangwu and Wiedmann, Thomas O. (2015). Carbon footprinting the Gold Coast City consumption of goods and built environment products. 23rd IIOA Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, 22-26 June 2015.
Research Report
Goodwin, Kylie, Wiedmann, Thomas, Allen, Cameron, Lanzen, Manfred, Li, Mengyu, Fry, Jacob, Chen, Guangwu, Schandl, Heins, Teh, Soo Huey and Micevski, Daniel (2021). ACT OCSE investigation into Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. Canberra ACT, Australia: CSIRO Land and Water.
Newspaper Article
Cheng, Mingming, Chen, Guangwu and Dolnicar, Sara (2021, 05 12). The carbon footprint of Airbnb is likely bigger than you think The Conversation