Abstract:This paper measure the efficiency of carbon dioxide emissions in China based on the traditional DEA and SBM Model. Then calculates productivity index of the carbon emissions and its decomposition, and analysis the effect of technology progress, efficiency change and the "innovators" region. The study obtains the main conclusions: SBM model has advantages in the number of effective units and efficiency division. The average carbon dioxide emissions of the country is only 54.9% during the period of 2000-2011, there is still large room to improve relatively to the frontier. The carbon emission efficiency of the East, Central and West regional are imbalance, the efficiency in East is significantly higher than that in Central and West. The average growth rate of MLPI in China is only 0.62%.The main source of productivity growth is the technological progress rather than the change of efficiency.