This page explains what happens to the money after you book, because it is not obvious and it is easy to distrust. Booking a room through this site does two things a hotel booking normally does not: it funds a tonne of verified carbon removal, and it returns five per cent of what you paid to an account you control. Neither is a surcharge, neither is optional, and neither is a box you have to remember to tick at checkout. Both come out of the commission the hotel pays for the booking, which is money that would otherwise stay inside the booking chain.
How it works
Four steps, in this order. Nothing in them is optional and none of them needs anything from you beyond the booking itself, which is the point: an offset that depends on the traveller remembering it is an offset that mostly does not happen.
That is the whole mechanism. One booking, one live rate, one tonne retired against a named project, and five per cent back for you to point at the next one. Nothing else is asked of you and nothing is added to what you pay.
Buy or gift verified offsets
You do not have to book a room to fund a tonne. Both vouchers live in the IMPT app and neither depends on a stay.
Worth keeping the two apart: the offset on a booking is funded by the booking, and the vouchers are a separate thing you can buy or give away. A stay does not need one.
The mechanism on this page is IMPT’s, and the register below is read from IMPT’s own project API rather than retyped: the names, categories, countries, vintages and descriptions are theirs. We do not print a price per tonne, because this site does not sell credits. What this site is responsible for is the neighbourhood ranking the booking came out of, and that method is published in full.
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