Operational Practice

• To minimize resource consumption and waste generation through responsible waste-reduction, purchasing polices, reuse, recycling and composting programs.
• To responsibly manage energy use and to seek renewable energy sources.
• To responsibly manage and protect water resources.
• To preferentially purchase local, environmentally friendly, and socially responsible products, especially organic and fair trade products.

Planning and Development

• To integrate social and environmental concerns into planning and decision-making processes.
• To continually review and improve Six Senses' Holistic Environmental Management Program.
• To regularly monitor our environmental impact, developing action plans through regular environmental meetings and monitoring of 'Key Sustainability Indicators.'

Climate Change

• To address the issue of climate change through both energy and resource management policies and avoiding fugitive emissions of CFCs.
• To prevent any escape of hazardous substances into the environment and to phase out environmentally damaging products as soon as benign alternatives are practicable.

Social Responsibility

• To donate 0.5 % of revenues to projects which will benefit both the local and global community and environment.
• To promote awareness of sustainability amongst hosts, guests, local communities, and suppliers/business partners through training programs and regular environmental awareness events.
• To involve local communities and actively employ local staff and service providers whenever possible.

Environmental Legislation

• To meet, or whenever possible, to improve upon the local legislative environmental requirements and to set our own group-wide minimum standards.
• To strictly avoid the use of animal products derived from any endangered species or produced using unnecessarily cruel or environmentally destructive methods.