Abstract:As a basic and a major carbon dioxide industry in China, the petrochemical industry has become a key industry affecting the realization of China's carbon emission reduction targets. This paper uses the generalized Divisia Index Method to decompose the evolution of carbon dioxide emissions in China's petrochemical industry from 2000 to 2016, and analyzes the phased and cumulative effects to investigate the contribution of changes to changes in CO2 emissions from changes of investment, output, energy consumption and corresponding carbon intensity, energy intensity and investment efficiency. The results show that investment scale, output scale and energy consumption scale are the main factors for CO2 emission increase; investment carbon intensity and output carbon intensity are the main factors for promoting the decline; The impact of energy carbon intensity, investment efficiency and energy intensity is weak, which has great room for improvement. It is the main starting point for the future carbon reduction policy formulation in the petrochemical industry, and proposes a corresponding carbon reduction policy.