Abstract:As the province with the largest annual CO2 emissions in China, exploring and identifying the main influencing factors of Shanxi’s CO2 emissions changes from multiple perspectives and designing emission reduction policy specifically are the key to achieve the target of green and low-carbon development in Shanxi, and are also important for the country to complete its emission reduction targets successfully. On the basis of existing decomposition analysis on carbon emission factors in Shanxi, this paper re-decomposes the influencing factors of CO2 emissions and the CO2 full emissions intensity, then discusses various direct and indirect effects of CO2 emission growth in different time periods from the perspective of the overall province and sub-industry, by constructing the IO-SDA model using the six input-output tables from 1987 to 2012. The study finds that the effect of economic scale expansion such as consumption, investment, and interprovincial outflow is the main promoting factor of CO2 emissions, and the interprovincial outflow expansion effect is the most which confirms that the interprovincial trade factors play an important role in the CO2 emission pattern of energy-exporting provinces like Shanxi. The direct energy intensity effect is the key reducing factor. Energy structure effect, import substitution effect, and interprovincial inflow substitution effect have no obvious impact on CO2 emissions. Among the seven major industries in Shanxi Province, CO2 emissions from agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery have declined, and other six industries including heavy industry and construction industry have driven the continuous growth of CO2 emissions. In the different periods, there are obvious differences in the factors promoting and reducing CO2 emissions and the impact in various industries. The CO2 full emissions intensity of various industries is overall higher, and the heavy industry is the highest. The energy structure effect and the direct energy intensity effect are the key reducing factors, and the direct energy intensity effect has the largest contribution value. The impact of input-output structural effects is uncertain. Accordingly, this paper puts forward some policy suggestions such as cultivating new and advantageous trade products, optimizing interprovincial transferred product structure and energy structure, balancing consumption, investment and trade transfer structures, and creating new models for energy saving and emission reduction.