Doyte has been a Lord of the Rain for 20 years.
He reads signs in the stars, the land and in animals
to predict when the rains are coming.
When there's a drought, it’s also up to him
to perform animal sacrifices to make the rains come.
His job is getting harder and harder.
He lives in South Omo in Ethiopia, one of the most remote areas in the world
and one of the hardest hit by the violent weather
caused by climate change.
Drought and famine killed more than a million people in Ethiopia in the 80s.
The government has vowed the tragedy won’t be repeated.
Doyte's son Wosenu lives in Jinka, South Omo’s biggest town.
He doesn’t want to be a Lord of the Rain.
He reads the weather for local radio station Jinka FM.
Wosenu's job at the radio station is part of a government scheme
that’s trying to ensure vulnerable communities get accurate weather forecasts in their own language,
so they can prepare for the increasingly unpredictable weather.
The aid agency Farm Africa has helped the local government by installing weather stations
and distributing radios.
Ethiopia is not a democracy.
It’s been ruled by the same coalition since 1991.
But it is one of the world’s fastest growing - and greenest - economies.
In 2007, the Ethiopian government introduced a radical green economic plan
to make the country carbon neutral and middle income by 2025.
So far, these policies have seen a GDP increase of 10-15% every year.
The aim is to make the country and its people self-sufficient and climate resilient.
So when we talk about investment, can we put a figure on
how much the treasury has invested in green infrastructure?
Ethiopia’s economic growth is fuelled by green power.
It’s already exporting clean energy to Djibouti and is building transmission lines
to Kenya and Sudan.
The government has focused on hydropower, resettling tens of thousands of people to
build Africa’s largest dams.
This project has been compromised by drought, so it’s now diversifying
and investing more in solar and wind energy.
But it's not Ethiopia’s carbon emissions that are the problem.
No matter how much money the government pours into green technology
or how many aid agencies try to help, no one can stop the weather here from changing.
And climate change doesn’t just bring hunger, it fuels conflict.
Ethiopia is fraught with ethnic tension.
Last year, more people fled their homes to escape violence here than in any other country.
This is a community at the front line of a global crisis.
With no one taking responsibility for the catastrophic change to their environment,
and with modern ideas apparently unable to stop it,
they are left searching for their own solutions.