Pollutant Emissions 70% open

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is ranked #13 for this dataset
Hong Kong's Index ranking for pollutant emissions is up from #51 in 2013

What data is expected?

Aggregate data about the emission of air pollutants especially those potentially harmful to human health (although it is not a requirement to include information on green house gas emissions). Aggregate means national-level or more detailed and on an annual basis or better. Standard examples of relevant pollutants would be: carbon monoxides, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter etc.

What data is available

  •   Does the data exist? Yes
  •   Is data in digital form? Yes
  •   Publicly available? Yes published by Environment Protection Bureau)
  •   Is the data available for free? Yes
  •   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
  •   Is the data machine readable? Yes (CSV)
  •   Available in bulk? Yes
  •   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
  •   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes

Details

Web interface allows you to pre-filter the exported CSV on particles / data and geographies.

Air quality Index data (which is based upon the raw data from air quality monitoring network) is available at: http://www.aqhi.gov.hk/epd/ddata/html/out/24aqhi_Eng.xml

Contributors

Reviewers

  • FENG GAO
  • Christian Villum

Submitters

  • Christian Villum
  • Mart van de Ven
  • Haruka Nakamura