With the deepening of the global division of labor, it is significant to analyze the impact of global value chain participation on embodied carbon emission intensity. It provides implications for countries to address climate issues and improve development quality. The present work uses a multi-region input-output table provided by World Input Output Database to calculate the global value chain participation and the embodied carbon emission intensity of 42 different countries, for the period between 2000 and 2014. In addition, we decompose the carbon emission intensity into the carbon emission ...