Green New Deal Dashboard (beta)
Learn more about Boston's Green New Deal key priorities and metrics.
Boston’s Green New Deal (GND) is a vision for tackling the climate crisis in Boston — with policies that address economic, social, and racial inequities, while advancing health, livability, and justice throughout our neighborhoods for all Boston residents.
This GND Dashboard serves as a resource to track progress towards advancing Boston as the greenest, most family-friendly city in the country:
- Building Decarbonization: The City is focused on decarbonizing and electrifying new and existing buildings to drastically reduce carbon emissions and promote healthy home and work environments.
- Transportation: We’re committed to ensuring all residents have easy and affordable access to an efficient, carbon-free transportation network.
- Clean Energy: We must purchase and generate renewable energy so we can power our city on carbon-free electricity as soon as possible.
- Resilience & Nature: From rising sea levels to hotter summer days, Boston is already experiencing the impacts of climate change. We are working to strengthen Boston’s 47-mile coast, while ensuring all residents benefit from trees, parks, and nature in our city
- Workforce: The City and our partners in education, labor, and the private sector are developing our green workforce to ensure a just transition to a green economy.
Boston's Green New Deal
About this Dashboard
Boston’s Green New Deal is putting into action projects, programs, and partnerships that make visible changes in our daily lives. Each section below features data on one key indicator of progress the city and our residents can see and track. These data points are being tracked to inform and measure tangible progress as we work to advance projects and set policies with the Green New Deal that enhance the climate, justice and quality of life in our neighborhoods. Where possible, we break the data down by neighborhood.
In each priority area of the dashboard, we include additional data sets and information on what the City is doing to make progress on our goals. You can also explore resources and find actions that residents can take directly.
The Green New Deal Dashboard is best viewed on desktop - mobile-friendly version coming soon!
Green New Deal Dashboard Metrics
GND in action
- Mayor Wu signs city ordinance for historic green building code for new construction to significantly reduce carbon emissions from buildings
- Mayor Wu plans to file home rule petition to establish fossil fuel-free standards for new construction and major renovations in Boston
- The Mayor’s Office of Housing’s Green Energy Retrofit program helps large multifamily affordable housing properties with financial and technical support to reduce energy and fossil fuel usage.
- Mayor Wu announces public housing to be fossil fuel-free by 2030 in her first State of the City address
GND IN action
GND IN action
GND in action
- Climate Ready Boston is partnering with the US Army Corps of Engineers to assess existing flood preparation and open the City to potential federal investment
- City Hall Plaza is undergoing renovation to become a more accessible, green, and comfortable shared space
- The City has announced a comprehensive framework for coastal resilience for East Boston and Charlestown
- The City has implemented new environmental standards for city infrastructure that include green infrastructure projects
GND in action
Federal Climate Funding
To accomplish our climate and equity goals, the City is actively pursuing federal funding opportunities as they become available—including from the American Rescue Plan (ARPA), the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The visuals below demonstrate the potential impact that each federal funding opportunity has on our five GND Dashboard priority areas and tracks what we have applied to, and won, so far. While we cannot provide a dollar amount of potential impact until after we have been awarded funds, we can share what opportunities the City of Boston is pursuing and the relevant categories of impact.
Additional Information
Boston’s climate change plans
Boston’s Climate Action Plan and Climate Ready Boston reports have laid the foundation for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and building climate resilience. We report on the progress of the recommendations in these plans through an annual progress report. We also conduct annual GHG tracking to measure trends toward our 2050 carbon neutrality goals.
