Abstract:In the background of normal distribution of the market environment, a retailer driven low carbon risk remanufacturing closed-loop supply chain model with third party recyclers was constructed by using Stackelberg game theory method and the mean variance method. The expected utility functions of the manufacturer, retailer and third party recyclers, and the influences of carbon emission capacity, carbon tax, risk aversion were analyzed in the zero-sum game model and the centralized decision-making. The results show that: 1) in the zero-sum game, the supply chain does not reach the optimal selling price, the optimal recovery price and the optimal expected utility of the benchmarking model, and can not automatically achieve the coordination. 2) compared with the non low carbon emission reduction government, the shadow manufacturing cost of low-carbon products increases when the manufacturer carries on low-carbon emission reduction, and the expected utility of the supply chain is reduced. 3) the promotion of low carbon emission reduction capability can reduce the selling price and shadow manufacturing cost, increase the market share and the expected utility of the supply chain. 4) the increase of carbon tax will raise selling price and shadow manufacturing cost, reduce market share and expected utility of supply chain. 5) the increase of risk aversion will reduce the expected utility of supply chain. Finally, the contracts of the forward channel revenue sharing and reverse channel risk sharing were designed to overcome the double marginal influence, and the coordination of the low remanufacturing closed-loop supply chain was achieved. Also, through numerical simulation and sensitivity analysis, the validity and practicability of the low-carbon remanufacturing closed loop supply chain model are verified. It provides the theoretical basis and policy recommendations for the cooperation between the upstream and downstream enterprises of the supply chain to carry out low-carbon emission.