Abstract: The low carbon sustainable residential evaluation system devotes to saving energy, reducing emission, andoptimizing the living environment, which plays a key role in coping with global warming and the sustainabledevelopment of human. It was introduced and analyzed comprehensively the most representative internationalresidential appraisal systemsBritish Code for Sustainable House, American LEED, Japanese CASBEE, ChineseEvaluation Standard for Green Building and Chinese Ecological Residential Assessment Manual from the aspects ofdevelopment process, evaluation content, evaluation software, evaluation system marketization, public education andso forth. It was also analyze the advantages and limitations of those residential evaluation systems, and put forward theproblems of the present Chinese low carbon sustainable residential assessment system and the measures to improve thefuture low carbon sustainable residential evaluation systems.