Carbon dioxide(CO2) is not only a well-known greenhouse gas but also one important C1 resource. It is very important to realize organic transformations with CO2 to generate high value-added compounds. Given the importance of carboxylic acid and derivatives which are widely found in natural products, medicines, daily chemicals and industrial raw materials, the synthesis of carboxylic acids with CO2 has become an important research direction. On the other hand, high temperature and other harsh conditions are always required in this field due to the low reactivity of CO2. To solve such problems, visible light is used as an clean energy source to drive the effective transformations of CO2, which has been developed significantly in last few years. This review mainly introduced and summarized the visible light-driven carboxylation with CO2 in recent years, and classified them according to types of important chemical raw materials, such as alkenes, alkynes, aldehydes and ketones, imines organo(pseudo)halides and others. The characteristics and mechanisms of each reaction were discussed. In addition, this review also provided perspective to this emerging field.