Carbon abatement research is dedicated to exploring and evaluating strategies and technologies to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations to mitigate the effects of global climate change. Based on this, the article found through the econometric analysis of the core set of literature in the WOS database in the past 10 years that: firstly, carbon emission reduction research is in a period of development, forming a core journal with SCI TOTAL ENVIRON, Journal of Cleaner Production, etc., a core research team with Cai, Bofeng, Shan, Yuli, Dong, Feng, etc., and core countries with China, the United States, and the United Kingdom as the core issuing and research powers. Secondly, the five key areas of sustainable development, economic growth and consumption, energy efficiency, climate change, and energy consumption, and the three key areas of energy efficiency, climate change, and energy consumption, have been discussed in this study. Thirdly, there are five themes of sustainable development, economic growth and consumption, energy efficiency, climate change and drivers, and energy consumption. From these, nine research details, such as carbon emission measurement and monitoring, carbon emission reduction technology research, carbon emission reduction policy and management, energy efficiency, and clean energy development, carbon emission trading market, carbon emission efficiency and environmental policy research, data-driven economics and environmental analysis, climate change, carbon emission drivers, and so on are extended. Finally, the analysis of the evolutionary process has undergone three stages: exploration of basic theories, application of specific industries and policy interventions, and integration of carbon emission reduction targets into socio-economic development plans. Carbon emission and sustainable development research, carbon emission reduction, and energy efficiency improvement are the latest frontiers of carbon emission reduction research.