Potential energy surfaces (PESs) of the 1 A l ( ), 1 B 2 and 3 B 2 electronic states of CO 2 have been computed as a function of the two bond distances and the bond angle. The calculations were based on the complete active space self consistent field (CASSCF) and multiconfigurational second order perturbation theory (CASPT2) electronic structure models. From our calculations no crossing point between 1 B 2 and 3 B 2 states was found, but there is a crossing point located between 1 B 2 and 3 A 2 state on the PESs. The energy of the crossing point is lie 0.23 eV above the CO + O ( 3 P), which is in agreement with the value of 0.27 eV on the experiment. This implies that the mechanism of the recombination of an oxygen atom with a carbon monoxide molecule: CO(X 1 Σ + , ν) + O( 3 P) 3 C 1 C CO(X 1 Σ + , ν = 0) + O( 1 D) may occur through the 3 A 2 state crossing the 1 B 2 state. The equilibrium geometries and adiabatic excitation energies of 1,3 B 2 , 1,3 A 2 states of CO 2 were reported and discussed in this paper, too.