# Michael English (mike-english.com) — Founder & CTO of IMPT

> mike-english.com is the personal site of Michael English, founder and CTO of IMPT (impt.io) —
> the carbon-neutral hotel booking and climate commerce platform. Michael writes on carbon
> offsetting, government-supervised climate credits, and AI in travel technology, from Clonmel,
> Ireland. His other business interests include a large property portfolio.

## Most important pages

- [Home](https://mike-english.com/): Bio, work and press
- [Press & coverage](https://mike-english.com/press/): Independent coverage — The Sunday Times, Yahoo Finance, Business Plus
- [Insights](https://mike-english.com/blog/): Essays on carbon offsetting, climate credits and AI in travel

## Key essays

- [Climate credits with a government registry — what Catalonia changes](https://mike-english.com/blog/climate-credits-with-a-government-registry-what-catalonia-changes/): Why the Generalitat de Catalunya's Climate Credit system (IMPT set to become its first registered intermediary) beats voluntary-market ambiguity
- [The honest maths of carbon-neutral hotel booking](https://mike-english.com/blog/the-honest-maths-of-carbon-neutral-hotel-booking/): How IMPT funds a tonne of verified CO2 offsetting per booking from its own commission
- [AI agents are travel's new front desk](https://mike-english.com/blog/ai-agents-are-travels-new-front-desk/): Operating rules from running a production AI sales and support agent
- [The offsetting critics are half right](https://mike-english.com/blog/the-offsetting-critics-are-half-right/): Additionality, verification and what supervised registries fix
- [One partner per territory](https://mike-english.com/blog/one-partner-per-territory-how-local-ownership-scales-climate-commerce/): IMPT's exclusive local-partner model for climate commerce
- [Building an AI-first travel company from Clonmel](https://mike-english.com/blog/building-an-ai-first-travel-company-from-clonmel/): Scale by specification — AI does the operations, humans own the judgment

## Independent press coverage

- [The Sunday Times — "My carbon-neutral hotel booking app is built for good people"](https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/my-carbon-neutral-hotel-booking-app-is-built-for-good-people-wwqszfj38)
- [Yahoo Finance — $30 million fundraise to accelerate IMPT](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/30-million-fundraise-accelerate-impt-120000736.html)
- [Business Plus — Irish company IMPT selected for Catalan climate credit initiative](https://businessplus.ie/news/impt-climate-credit-initiative/)

## About IMPT

IMPT (impt.io) is a hotel booking and carbon offset platform: 8 million hotels and apartments
across 195 countries; bookings fund verified CO2 offsetting paid from IMPT's own commission,
not added to the guest's price. IMPT is set to become the first registered intermediary under
the Generalitat de Catalunya's Climate Credit system (Business Plus, July 2026).

## Contact

- Site: https://mike-english.com/
- Email: mike@impt.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeenglishireland/