The invention relates to a carbon dioxide electroreduction catalytic material, a preparation method and applications thereof, wherein the electroreduction catalytic material is mainly a carbon-supported single atom catalytic material, and is synthesized by high-temperature carbonization, the synthetic raw materials comprise melamine, amino acid and acetate, a metal atom is embedded in a nitrogen-doped graphene substrate to form the structure of the material, and the material is used for carbon dioxide electrochemical reduction catalyst gas diffusion electrodes. According to the present invention, with the carbon dioxide electroreduction catalytic material, the utilization efficiency of the metal atom is significantly improved, the activity of the catalyst to the electroreduction of CO2 isincreased, the catalytic stability is improved, the hydrogen evolution reaction is effectively inhibited, the selectivity of the product CO is enhanced, and the potential window of the carbon dioxidereduction-to-CO is broadened.