We're excited to announce that the Autodesk Sustainability Data API is now available in Public Beta on Autodesk Platform Services (APS)!
The Sustainability Data API allows you to easily integrate trusted sustainability data into your applications.
What is Sustainability Data API?
The Sustainability Data API is a standardized framework designed to connect our customers with the right third-party datasets that they trust, want, and are often required to use, at all design stages.
Sustainability datasets are typically highly regionalized data sources that follow different methodologies and legislation requirements. Due to the lack of common technical standards in the past, this has resulted in a fragmented landscape of data providers, each with their own unique data formats and access methods. The Sustainability Data API standardizes these diverse datasets by mapping them to a unified set of endpoints, making it easier for developers to integrate and utilize them in their applications.
The Sustainability Data API allows you to:
- Build applications that integrate a range of trusted sustainability datasets
- Offer your users seamless access to quality environmental data that they need, when they need it
- Enhance sustainability insights and ensure compliance with industry standards and local regulations
Sustainability Data from Trusted Sources
We use the term Data Provider to refer to a third-party organization that collects, curates, and maintains sustainability datasets. Data collection, cleansing, correction, verification, etc. is a complex process which the Sustainability Data API does not attempt to address. Instead, our goal is to give the Data Providers a simpler gateway to share their data with our customers through a common API while fully retaining their data ownership and licensing terms.
The Sustainability Data API enables our Data Providers to:
- Connect their datasets to a range of Autodesk products1 and other APS applications
- Grow their user base while maintaining just a single point of integration
- Fully retain ownership and control of their data and licensing terms
Please refer to the Data Provider documentation to learn how to become a Data Provider and integrate your datasets with the Sustainability Data API.
Going to AU 2025?
Join us for the following Autodesk University (AU) sessions to hear more about the Sustainability Data API, the current functionality, and the demos of integrations with Autodesk products:
- 3729 | Autodesk Insight Is Going Global: Regionalized Carbon Results Supported by Autodesk’s New Sustainability Data API
- 3125 | An Insight into Mott MacDonald's Partnership with Autodesk’s Sustainability Data API and AEC Data Model for Carbon Analysis
- 2230 | Total Carbon Data Analysis and Insights (2025)
Getting Started
We'd love to hear how you're using the API during this public beta. Your feedback is critical to shaping the future of the Sustainability Data API.
- Learn more in our API Documentation
- Explore the currently available Data Providers and datasets.
- Join our Public Beta Feedback Portal to submit any feedback and other support requests
1 Provided that they are already using the Sustainability Data API.