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
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Carbon explainers
The category sits between three audiences that rarely share a vocabulary — climate scientists, corporate carbon-accounting teams, and the millions of travellers booking offsets without knowing what they're buying. These explainers translate.
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.
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