Charlotta Lomas

Communications

Melbourne

digital media storytelling media relations strategic communications

Charlotta Lomas

Communications

Melbourne

digital media storytelling media relations strategic communications

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Exiled Afghan women’s football team scores goals in Australia
When Fatima Yousufi was a child, she loved nothing more than to watch football on TV with her younger brother. Never did she imagine that one day, she would become the goalkeeper and captain of the Afghan Women's National Football Team. She remembers vivi
UNHCR
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Youth demand climate action
Young people from around the world share their concerns for the future and call for greater action on climate change. Producer: Charlotta Lomas, FAO.
UN FAO
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The women working in crises
Celebrating women humanitarians is the theme of this year’s World Humanitarian Day (August 19), a day to honor humanitarian efforts worldwide and to rally support for people affected by crises. One country with exceptionally high humanitarian needs is the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to UN figures, this year alone 12.8 million people in DRC will need humanitarian aid as a result of protracted conflict and violence, and the risk of cholera and Ebola. In this podcast, FAO’s Silvia Risi talks about her humanitarian work in DRC and what it means to be a woman humanitarian.
UN FAO
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Winner | New York Radio Awards 2018
Climate Change: How Did We Get Here?
The Elephant Podcast
News and Current Affairs
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Living Planet: Energy
Energy production and use account for about two-thirds of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. So how can we drastically cut these emissions?
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
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Winner | The AIBs 2017
Living Planet: The road to renewables
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
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Ex-Irish President Mary Robinson on Hope, Climate Change, and International Women's Day
March 8th marks international women's day, an annual celebration of the achievements of women across the globe. And this year’s campaign is: Be Bold For Change. To discuss climate change and equality, and how it intersects with the role of women worldwide, our new Elephant producer and co-host Charlotta Lomas spoke with a woman who has herself been bold for change - Mary Robinson who was the first female President of Ireland from 1990-1997.
The Elephant
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Winner | New York Radio Awards 2015
Living Planet: Our Plastic Planet
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Stateless Rohingya turns bodybuilding dream into reality
As a child, Noor Kabir risked his life for a dream. Inspired by the film “Rocky”, he became the world’s first Rohingya bodybuilding champion. By Lydia Siamando and Charlotta Lomas in Canberra, Australia 30 January 2024 © UNHCR/Rhett Hammerton When Noor Ka
UNHCR Australia
Kids, it's time to cook!
Who says children shouldn’t play in the kitchen? Cooking healthy food starts young in this Touch Smell Taste cooking class in Rome. The hands-on cooking lab, led by Naheda Slayih and supported by volunteers, invites visually impaired children to learn how to become young chefs and have a good time too.
UNFAO
Animation: Conflict-sensitive programming
The video describes what conflict-sensitive programming is, why it is important, and outlines three key steps for FAO programming to be conflict-sensitive. It uses illustrative examples of FAO interventions (supporting food security, rural livelihoods and resilience of small-holder farmers) to highlight key points.
UN FAO
FAO Podcast - Desert locusts: Are we winning the fight?
This time last year, swarms of desert locusts began spreading to countries in the Horn of Africa, devastating crops and people’s livelihoods. FAO's emergency campaign appealed for urgent action to avoid a desert locust plague and a looming humanitarian crisis. One year on, we ask FAO' s senior locust forecasting officer Keith Cressman if we are winning the fight.
UN FAO
News and Current Affairs
What is Anticipatory Action?
FAO animation - Early Warning, Early Action
FAO United Nations
News and Current Affairs
UN agriculture agency staff continue to strive for a better world amid Italy COVID-19 lockdown
FAO leads global efforts to defeat hunger and ensure that everyone has access to high-quality food. The agency is working with WHO and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to assist countries and researchers in identifying potential animal hosts of the new coronavirus, though currently spread and development is due to human-to-human transmission.
UN news
Worst Desert Locust outbreak in decades
It’s the worst Desert Locust outbreak in decades for many countries in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are most affected by the locusts. To date, the locusts have spread to a total of seven countries, including nearby Djibouti, Eritrea and Uganda. As the situation continues to deteriorate, FAO warns there’s a growing risk the pests could migrate to more neighbouring countries.
UNFAO
Radio Report News and Current Affairs
When tourism meets tradition
In Montenegro, smallholder farmers rely heavily on traditional agriculture practices for their livelihoods. So much so, that a poor blueberry harvest or honey season can have devastating impacts on rural households. That’s why the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)are rolling out a project there that links rural farming households with agro-tourism. The project aims to diversify the incomes of farmers in small villages across the region as well as promote Montenegrin cuisine and preserve traditional food production practices. And it’s having all kinds of positive impacts, particularly on young people, as FAO’s Charlotta Lomas has been finding out.
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Charlotta Lomas

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Charlotta is a multi award-winning journalist with over ten years of working in senior media and communications roles. She has worked as adviser to a federal senator and as a communications manager for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, as well as the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome.

Charlotta has a background in journalism, working for Deutsche Welle, Germany's international broadcaster, as the environment editor and as the executive producer and host of Living Planet - a weekly current affairs environment radio program. In addition, she co-hosted and co-produced The Elephant Podcast based in Berlin. Charlotta also worked as a freelance multimedia journalist in Europe and Australia.

She is fluent in English, Dutch, French, German ... and can manage to order food in Italian.