Abstract: China faces a series of constraints to achieve the goal of carbon intensity reduction, one of which is the “high carbon” energy resource endowment characteristics of “more coal, less oil and less gas”.Based on the construction of the mathematical model and analysis framework of energy resource endowment influencing carbon emissions, this paper empirically tests the intensity, direction and transmission mechanism of energy and resource endowment′s impact on carbon emissions through per capita income, energy efficiency, energy consumption structure, industrial structure, market openness, foreign direct investment, energy price and other intermediary variables. The results show that: inter provincial carbon emissions have spatial positive correlation and agglomeration characteristics. The main way to curb carbon emissions is the “resource curse” effect, which can restrain the growth of energy consumption and carbon emissions by reducing per capita income.However, the energy and resource endowment promotes the increase of carbon emissions by increasing the proportion of coal in the energy consumption structure and the proportion of the secondary industry in the national economy, reducing energy prices, reducing market openness, hindering the inflow of foreign capital and reducing energy efficiency.

Key words: energy resource endowment, carbon emission, transmission mechanism, resource curse, spatial effect