Abstract: In recent years, it’s a hot and important issue to mitigate and respond to global climate change, and one important topic focuses on the relationship between economic growth and carbon emission. This paper studies the relationship between economic growth and carbon emission in Shandong province. It calculated carbon emissions from 1990 to 2009 of Shandong province, and used grey analysis method to figure out the relationship between economic growth and carbon emission of Shandong province. The result shows that carbon emission increases with economic growth and there is a weak relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions.