Carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the atmosphere by human activity is the most important greenhouse gas, significantly affecting global warming. Therefore, the released CO2 from various industries is a big challenge and has received increasing consideration by researchers. To date, several techniques have been employed to capture CO2, among them CO2 uptake by adsorption has been recognized to be an appropriate technique. Here, we describe the potential application and the excellent characterization of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) in capturing CO2. MOFs possess unique features compared with other manufactured sorbents for capturing CO2 and have a high performance as they can provide an excellent capacity to capture CO2. A high uptake capacity of CO2 gas on MOFs is mostly attributed to high surface area and the surface chemistry. Additionally, the created pore volume on the surface of MOFs plays an important role in capturing CO2 molecules. MOFs can be synthesized and prepared via various methods and the defined strategies of the CO2 uptake capacity on MOFs structure may be boosted. In this study we have comprehensively described the synthesis method and the outstanding features of MOFs.