Restoring Earth and the Bardawil & Sinai Initiative

In 2017, The Weather Makers began with a simple belief:
that restoring ecosystems could be a path toward peace and resilience.
Over time, that belief has only grown stronger.

The Bardawil & Sinai Initiative (BSI) started with a clear goal to regenerate a lagoon.
But Lake Bardawil, on Egypt’s northern coast, is more than a body of water.
It’s a once-living system a coastal engine that sustained people and nature alike, now quieted by silt, pressure, and time.

Restoring it is the first step in a larger transformation:
a system-based strategy to revive the biosphere, reactivate the water cycle, and rebuild balance across the Sinai Peninsula.

From vision to foundation

The initiative was launched at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, with the support of the Egyptian government.
As interest grew, so did the challenges, regional instability, security concerns, and economic headwinds.

Yet the work continued.

Because the link between ecological decline and social instability is no longer theoretical, it’s visible.
And we believe that transforming landscapes can address the root causes of water stress, food insecurity, and migration.

To carry this mission forward, we established the Weather Makers Foundation (TWMF),
a nonprofit platform uniting science, policy, engineering, and community under one shared purpose.

The Blueprint for Regeneration

Together with our partners, we are developing the BSI Blueprint for the Sinai a framework for regeneration at scale.

Step one: a System-Based Regeneration Strategy,
defining methods for ecological engineering, sediment transport, regenerative aquaculture, green hydrogen, and strategic evaporation.

The Blueprint will allow us to measure both financial costs and regenerative returns biodiversity restored, rainfall reactivated, jobs created, and resilience strengthened. With peer-reviewed insights into natural and social capital, we’re making this knowledge open-source so others can learn from it, adapt it, and apply it to their own landscapes.

Where we begin, not where we end

Our mission is simple to regenerate life at scale.

Sinai is where we start, not where we stop.

With every restored lagoon and every seed that takes root, we’re modelling what a peaceful, climate-resilient future can look like one grounded in water, soil, and collaboration.

📘 Explore the full Blueprint: The Bardawil & Sinai Initiative – Blueprint for Global Regeneration