The Earth Charter Foundation functions as a non-profit organization for planet-care initiatives and governed by the foundation's Council of Governors headed by three  permanent directors.

SIX SENSES DRIVES REFORESTATION
CARBON EMISSIONS MITIGATION

Six Senses Resorts & Spas has planted the first 300 trees of a reforestation project in northern Thailand as part of a mitigation of climate changing carbon emissions.

The Earth Charter Foundation is coordinating the Six Senses Fragrant Forest project as part of the UNESCO approved Earth Charter for a cleaner and healthier world.

Six Senses, a world leading luxury resort and spa development and management company, joins aid agencies, governments and private companies in supporting mitigation projects to curb the threat of severe climate change caused by human-made hydrocarbon emissions and greenhouse gases caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

By planting trees on deforested land Six Senses offsets carbon emission while helping people at the community level overcome soil erosion, protect crop-yielding land and restore natural habitats.

The British medical journal The Lancet has published a report warning that climate change had become the biggest health threat facing the world.

Researchers from the University College of London found that the indirect effects of climate change on water, food security and extreme climatic events were likely to have the biggest effect on global health. Most aid agencies are now incorporating the impacts of climate change into their plans and activities on the ground.

Six Senses Fragrant Forest project is located in the Pang Hai Valley of Mai Rim in a mountain enclave 100 kilometres from Chiang Mai International Airport in northern Thailand.

The formation of the Earth Charter Foundation follows the June 2007 Digital Earth Symposium held in San Francisco. This historic  gathering brought together education and environment groups, scientists, academics and the media to hear and learn about Earth's current condition and associated problems that included climate change, living conditions and species extinctions. The Earth Charter was enthusiastically received at the symposium as an important document of principles for the protection and preservation of the planet's bounty.