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a Porous Ti/SnO2-Sb2O3-CNT/PbO2 electrodes were successfully fabricated using thermal decomposition technique and electro-deposition technologies. Characterization experiments including Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Energydispersive spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Cyclic voltammertry (CV), Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) and accelerated life time test was performed to evaluate the effect of CNT-doped SnO2-Sb2O3 intermediate layer on PbO2 electrode. The results showed that CNT could be doped into the SnO2-Sb2O3 intermediate layer by thermal decomposition. Compared with porous Ti/SnO2-Sb2O3 substrate, CNT-doped induced the substrate surface forming a fibrous structure, it means that porous Ti/SnO2-Sb2O3-CNT substrate would provide more active sites for PbO2 deposition and could make a compact and fine surface coating. Besides, the CNT modified electrode had higher active surface area and higher electrochemical activity than without CNT doped. The life of porous Ti/SnO2-Sb2O3-CNT/PbO2 (296h) was 1.38 times as much as that of porous Ti/SnO2-Sb2O3/PbO2 electrode (214h). Electro-catalytic oxidation of phenol in aqueous solution was studied to evaluate the electrochemical oxidation ability in environment science. Porous Ti/SnO2-Sb2O3-CNT/PbO2 electrode displayed not only excellent electro-catalytic performance but also low energy consumption using phenol as a model organic pollutant. The porous Ti/SnO2-Sb2O3-CNT/PbO2 electrode has higher kinetic rate constant and chemical oxygen demand (COD), which is 1.73 and 1.09 times those of the porous Ti/SnO2-Sb2O3/PbO2 electrode, respectively. Moreover, CNT-doped can further increase the hydroxyl radical (·OH) generation capacity. All these results illustrated that porous Ti/SnO2-Sb2O3-CNT/PbO2 electrode for pollutants degradation and had a great potential application.