Quantifying carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from China’s wood and bamboo processing industry is associated with China’s emissions reduction targets, as well as mitigating global climate change. This study employed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Tier-2 methodology to investigate spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of carbon dioxide emission from the wood and bamboo processing industry in China from 2000 to 2019. The results showed that energy consumption reached a maximum value of 312,900.35 TJ in 2012. Energy consumption has been gradually transformed from raw coal to electricity and other clean energy. Energy intensity dropped from 1.39 TJ per million yuan of corrected production value in 2000 to 0.15 TJ per million yuan of corrected production value in 2019. Accordingly, CO 2 emissions reached their peak value of 31,148.1 thousand tons of CO 2 in 2012. Raw coal and electricity had profound impacts on CO 2 emissions. The CO 2 emission intensity declined from 140.04 tons CO 2 per million yuan of corrected production value in 2000 to 19.62 tons CO 2 per million yuan of corrected production value in 2019. We conclude that China’s wood and bamboo processing sector is a green, low-carbon industry. The spatial distribution pattern of CO 2 emissions is highly consistent with the industrial spatial layout. Furthermore, several mitigation paths were put forward.