Consumption is always related to every person.With constant development of global economy,human living level is increasing ,more and more problems in consumption appear,as a result,sustainable consumption is an important pattern in contemporarily social development and sets new requirement for our present consumption ideology,consumption habit,consumption structure and set new requirement for our present consumption ideology,consumption habit,consumption structure and consumption pattern,especially low carbon consumption advocated in recent years injects new connotation into sustainablw consumption.This paper mainly introduces the effect of consumption on environment with the constant development of the society,consumption demand and its sustainability,and policies and measures used by government and points out that sustainable consumption still needs to adjust income distribution.