What is a carbon credit?
Carbon credits are the universal accounting unit of climate action — one credit = one tonne of CO₂ avoided or removed from the atmosphere. This explainer walks through wh...
Read →Carbon, climate, travel — in plain English
One tonne of CO₂ retired on every IMPT hotel booking.
Carbon IMPT is the working notebook of the IMPT carbon team. We write about how carbon credits actually work, why most travel offsets fail their own audits, and how IMPT's automatic 1-tonne retirement is one of the few that doesn't.
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Voluntary vs compliance carbon markets
The two carbon markets do completely different things — one is the law, one is corporate ambition. Which one matters when you book a hotel?
Read →How carbon offsets are actually verified
Verra, Gold Standard, ACR, CAR — five registries dominate global carbon-credit verification. Here is exactly how a project becomes a tradeable credit, and why some claims...
Read →Are carbon credits a scam?
The honest answer is — some are, most aren't, and the bad ones get all the press. Here's how to tell the difference and why a 1-tonne retirement on every IMPT booking is ...
Read →Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions explained
Hospitality emissions are mostly Scope 3 — that means upstream suppliers and downstream guest travel. Here's how the Greenhouse Gas Protocol categorises everything and wh...
Read →The GHG Protocol in plain English
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol is the global standard for emissions accounting. It is also surprisingly easy to read — once you know where to look.
Read →1 booking = 1 verified tonne, retired on-chain.
When you book a hotel through the IMPT app, we purchase one verified tonne of CO₂ from a Verra- or Gold Standard-listed project and retire it against your account. The retirement is signed on-chain, queryable, and tied to your booking reference. No "green fee", no offsetting catalogue, no upsell.
1 tonneverified CO₂ retired per hotel booking
30 kgaverage CO₂ from one hotel night — your retirement covers ~33 nights
195countries with IMPT hotel inventory
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Explainers
Carbon credits, scopes, offsets vs reductions, the GHG protocol, voluntary vs compliance markets.
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Forestry, biochar, DAC, blue carbon, regenerative ag, mangroves, ocean alkalinity.
All project types →Policy & regulation
EU ETS, Article 6, CORSIA, CBAM, SBTi, the new CSRD disclosures.
All policy →Travel & hotels
Hotel carbon footprints, flight vs stay emissions, choosing a low-carbon property, IMPT's automatic offset.
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