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 | referenced | 123815 | 0c0d6b24ce2d4ea694b83e442e116088b5e1f4ef6fda54faa534b3020ab0bd4b | source |
| CSV | referenced | 123157 | bf88f4a6b60cd7487eb6cdee0f00c607785ae2a0268b8c9266880151d901bc8c | source |
| CSV | referenced | 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. |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:greenhouse-gas-emissions
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/greenhouse-gas-emissions
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/greenhouse-gas-emissions.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- greenhouse-gas-emissions
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |