FILL YOUR SENSES CARBON-FREE

From PATA: Six Senses Resorts & Spas has announced its flagship resort - Soneva Fushi in the Maldives – is the group’s first property to implement a programme to offset its guests’ flight emissions. Phase one will make Soneva Fushi carbon neutral by 2008, and the second step will result in the resort being carbon free by 2010.

The resort is a main contributor to the Six Senses Carbon Offset Fund, which will initially support the Converging World project. This project establishes alternative energy production methods, such as wind turbines, in communities of developing countries before they become dependent on energy from fossil fuels.

The resort is also developing climate-sympathetic accommodation, which use local materials, as well as reducing food transportation energy by growing produce in its organic gardens,

This is just the beginning of the Six Senses Zero Emissions Objective commitment to sustainable development and to the environment. The resort has engaged the British environmental engineering and design consultancy firm, XCO2, to move towards powering the entire Soneva Fushi property with zero-carbon energy.

It can be done!