Charlotta Lomas

Communications

Canberra

digital media storytelling media relations strategic communications

Charlotta Lomas

Communications

Canberra

digital media storytelling media relations strategic communications

How can we achieve Zero Hunger?
There is enough food to feed the entire population. Yet there are 821 million people in the world who are hungry. Achieving Zero Hunger means meeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to ensure food security for everyone across the globe. So how can we achieve Zero Hunger by 2030? Experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization share their views on how we can have a world without hunger.
UN FAO
Living Planet: Africa's resource wars
Fertile land in Nigeria is being eaten up drought, fueling conflict between herdsmen who need what's left to graze their animals and farmers who need it for their crops. Meanwhile in East Africa, tensions are rising over who controls the waters of the Nile.
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Living Planet: Journeys to Africa
This week, three stories from the African continent: In Rwanda, we explore the mountain gorilla's complex relationship with its human neighbors; in Kenya, we uncover the ugly side of the flower industry; and in the Congo Basin, we find out about how the world's second-largest tropical forest is under threat.
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Living Planet: Nature in transition
On this week's show, Colombia's impressive birdlife has survived civil war. Can it now help save the country's forests? Alien iguanas are invading the US state of Florida with dramatic results. Plus, why South-East Asia's longest river could be destroyed in just a few decades.
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Living Planet: Playing with food
From cultured cabbages to musical leeks, we explore the weird and wonderful ways that we use and produce food.
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Living Planet: After the storm
In 2017, two hurricanes of the highest intensity — Category 5 — wreaked havoc on the Caribbean islands. Irma came first, Maria followed, leaving a trail of destruction, displacing communities, and causing billions of dollars in damage. Now, six months on, the still-recovering island nations are having to prepare for the next hurricane season that's just months away.
Deutsche Welle
Living Planet: Nuclear, post-Fukushima
Seven years on from Fukushima, we look at Japan's controversial efforts to send evacuees home, and battles raging in France and the UK over where to store nuclear waste. And we ask if, for all this, there's still a place for CO2-free atomic energy in a world threatened by climate change?
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Living Planet: In deep water
Climate change means the sea level is rising and storms are more frequent and intense. We visit communities around the world facing rising waters – from Fijians being forced to relocate to the Dutch marketing their flood-defense expertise.
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Living Planet: Pining for paradise
Planning your next holiday? Maybe you're dreaming about relaxing on an island beach, snorkelling in coral-rich waters or touring a quaint European city. Wherever you're headed, it's worth sparing a thought for the locals. While tourism can be a blessing for businesses, it can often be a curse for the environment.
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Living Planet: The new gold rush
We live on a planet of finite resources but our demand for new consumer products and technologies keeps growing. That's driving a race to extract materials from ever-more remote corners of the Earth – and beyond.
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Living Planet: Sustaining nature
Climate change threatens India's most sacred river, Senegalese octopus come back from the brink, Chilean fishermen embrace sustainable practices, and we meet the volunteer who's been spearheading the world’s biggest beach cleanup.
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Living Planet: A 5 percent chance of success
Climate scientist Kevin Anderson is one of the world's leading authorities on carbon budgets. He told DW keeping global warming below 2 degrees is a choice — but it's one we have to make it fast.
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Living Planet: '1.5 is still possible'
UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa says there is political will to curb climate change. She told DW once we speed up our transition to renewables and away from fossil fuels, we'll be on the right track.
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Living Planet: Our CO2 problem
There's only so much CO2 we can release before we push the global temperature above 2 degrees – what scientists call our carbon budget. Do we stand a chance of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels in time?
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Inside Europe: Why COP23 matters
COP23 kicked off here in Bonn on Monday. It’s a two week meeting aimed at strengthening the 2015 Paris climate agreement. 196 countries are participating in it, plus the European Union. Fiji is presiding over this year’s summit – a tiny island nation which faces an existential threat from global warming.
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs
Living Planet: 1.5 to stay alive
As the 23rd annual UN climate conference kicked off in Bonn this week, the message from small island states was loud and clear: 1.5 to stay alive. At COP23, Living Planet spoke with Pacific Islanders, climate activists and indigenous peoples campaigning for urgent climate action:
Deutsche Welle
News and Current Affairs

About

Charlotta Lomas

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Charlotta is a multi award-winning journalist.

Currently based in Canberra, she works as the external relations officer for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) representation for Australia, New Zealand, PNG and the Pacific. Previously, she worked as a communications specialist for the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome. Prior to this, Charlotta worked 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.