Abstract: Excessive use of fossil energy results in a large number of greenhouse gas emissions and environmental hazards like global warming and sea level rise. In order to promote green development and protect the world environment, various economies are actively proposing measures to reduce carbon emissions. At the same time, scholars have done a lot of researches on reduction of carbon emissions of fossil energy from different perspectives, but there is a lack of literature review in this field at present. We conduct a literature review of researches on carbon emission reduction of fossil energy, intending to provide scholars with the overall research framework and content of carbon emission reduction of fossil energy. In this paper, 73 literatures are reviewed and analyzed from regional, industry and enterprise angles. The analysis reveals that future researches can be done on the source of carbon emission reduction behavior of fossil energy, the application of fossil energy carbon reduction technology, fossil energy supply chain emission reduction, and emission reduction of fossil energy industry chain collaboration.

Key words: fossil energy, carbon emissions reduction, carbon emission reduction behavior, carbon emission reduction technology, supply chain