The invention belongs to the technical field of organic chemical industries, and particularly relates to an efficient nano composite catalyst capable of converting CO2 to cyclic
carbonate and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) smashing and sieving natural attapulgite ores, removing impurities, to obtain attapulgite
powder; (2) enabling the attapulgite
powder to be dispersed in a first
solvent, adding a modifier, stirring and reacting, treating to obtain
solid powder; (3) enabling the
solid powder to be dispersed in a second
solvent, adding an organic ligand and
metal salt, stirring and enabling the
solid powder to be completely dissolved, standing, to obtain a preliminary product; and (4) placing the preliminary product in an oven with aroom temperature or a high temperature, enabling the preliminary product to be adequately reacted, centrifuging, washing and
drying a product, to obtain the catalyst, wherein the
metal salt is
rare earth salt and / or
transition metal salt. The prepared catalyst has the characteristics of easy acquisition of raw materials, low cost, simple preparation process, stable structure, high
catalytic efficiency, easy separation and cyclic utilization of the catalyst and the like.