Municipal CO2 Emissions in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2014

CO2 emissions data for Dutch municipalities and the Netherlands as a whole, calculated by the national Emission Registration. The dataset includes total emissions, emissions excluding the energy sector, and emissions from traffic and transport for specific years between 1990 and 2014. It was published by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze municipal-level emission trends over time based on the provided yearly snapshots.
• Compare the contribution of the traffic and transport sector to total emissions based on the separate category.
• Calculate regional totals, such as for the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region, by aggregating municipality data as described.
• Assess the impact of the energy sector on national emissions based on the 'excluding energy sector' metric.

Strengths

• Provides data at the municipal level, allowing for granular geographic analysis.
• Includes separate categories for total emissions, emissions excluding the energy sector, and traffic/transport emissions.
• Covers a multi-decade time range with data points for seven specific years between 1990 and 2014.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Emission Registration (ER), Netherlands, via the Klimaatmonitor database.

Collection Method

Calculated per emission cause using distribution keys (e.g., traffic intensity for road traffic) and aggregated to municipal and national totals.

Time Range

1990, 1995, -2000, 2005, 2010, 2013, 2014

Freshness

Data covers years up to 2014; last update date is unknown.

Geography

Municipalities and the Netherlands as a whole, with an example for the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region.