Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

This dataset represents the annual greenhouse gas emissions produced by the City of Boston from 2005 to 2021. The annual inventory is based on a combination of direct data and estimates for data that cannot be obtained directly. Data sources vary, and include City records, utility company reports,…

Dataset

Publisher: Environment Department
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 7
Keywords: Climate Ready Boston, climate change, emissions, energy, environment, greenhouse
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/greenhouse-gas-emissions

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

Format	Preservation	Size	Digest	Source
CSV	preserved	123815	`0c0d6b24ce2d4ea694b83e442e116088b5e1f4ef6fda54faa534b3020ab0bd4b`	source
CSV	preserved	123157	`bf88f4a6b60cd7487eb6cdee0f00c607785ae2a0268b8c9266880151d901bc8c`	source
CSV	preserved	43749	`80da3ebcf7a107229711733c4ce7d336e3968b9d9d0667a5cd5e3a2106969a28`	source

Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

Column	Type	Description
`Protocol`	text	Indicates the protocol used for reporting data.
`Department Longname`	text	Full name of department responsible for energy use.
`Department`	text	Acronym/short name for department responsible for energy use.
`Sector`	text	GHG producing asset (buildings, vehicles, street lights, etc.)
`Fuel Type`	text	Type of energy producing GHGs.
`Year (Fiscal Year)`	text	Fiscal period of energy consumed (From July 1st to June 30th).
`GHG Emissions (t CO2e)`	text	Numeric quantity of GHGs produced in tons of carbon dioxide equivalents.

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/7ee896f5a6d8a965b51569c5243e0ff8/greenhouse-gas-emissions-columns.json — 1253 bytes, SHA-256 7ee896f5a6d8a965…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Who publishes Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and under what license?

Environment Department publishes it. The archive accessioned it under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain), and holds the publisher's own column dictionary verbatim rather than reworded into the archive's vocabulary — how a publisher names a column is evidence about the publisher.