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Deets: The Hollywood Climate Summit today unveiled the programming for its 2026 summit, returning June 3 - 4 for two days of interactive conversations, networking experiences, workshops, plant-based eats, and cross-sector collaboration across climate and entertainment.

Now in its seventh year, the Hollywood Climate Summit is the flagship annual conference from Context Collaborative, a nonprofit that directs cultural attention to climate issues and leveling up how they resonate across the stories, platforms, and experiences people love. This year’s summit will bring together entertainment and media professionals, storytellers, executives, artists, scientists, advocates, and cultural leaders for action-oriented programming designed to advance climate literacy and deepen engagement across the global media ecosystem.

Programming will take place across two iconic Los Angeles venues, starting on June 3 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills and continuing on June 4 at The Ebell of Los Angeles. Across the two-day summit, programming will include main-stage conversations, featured programming, interactive sessions, entertainment, networking, and more.

Highlighted sessions and conversations for the 2026 conference include:

June 3, 2026
Pluribus: One Mind, One Planet?
Speakers: Karolina Wydra (Actor, Pluribus), Alison Tatlock (EP/Writer, Pluribus), Steph Spiers (Founder, EP, Future in Bloom)
Apple TV+'s Pluribus captured audiences by imagining a future where humanity merges into one mind. But what that mind chooses to protect reveals everything. In conversation with the show's executive producer and cast, the panel unpacks the values embedded in that vision, why the hive mind conserves resources but abandons human longevity, and what it exposes about humanity's fractured relationship with collective action in the face of environmental crisis. “Pluribus” is produced by Sony Pictures Television.

The Overview Effect
Speakers: Bill Wolkoff (Writer, Co-EP, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Melissa Navia (Actor, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Manju Bangalore (Astronaut-In-Training & Founder, Operation Period), Garrett Reisman (Engineer, Former NASA Astronaut)
From the awe-inspiring "Earthrise" photo to iconic sci-fi franchises like Star Trek, the way humanity views the Earth has the power to shift perspectives and forge a blueprint for shared purpose. In this session, space storytellers and experts explore how science and collaboration in storytelling can ignite public imagination and expand ideas of what is possible here on Earth.

The Plastic Detox
Speakers: Peyton List (Actor, Advocate), Josh Murphy (Co-Director, The Plastic Detox), Dr. Jasmine McDonald (Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health), Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. (President & CEO, Hip Hop Caucus)
Plastic is everywhere – even inside our bodies. It's harming our health and our communities, making this crisis deeply personal. How can we break up with plastic and reclaim our health? This session spotlights the new Netflix documentary, The Plastic Detox, in an interactive conversation with storytellers, experts, and advocates.

The Endgame: A Live Play-through of Climate Storylines in Games
Host: Erika Ishii (Actor, Host) 
A live gameplay experience where storytelling, environmental expertise, and video games collide. Notable gamers and experts come together to demonstrate how some of the world's best games have already seamlessly integrated climate themes, from tone and setting to character design, mechanics, and storylines.

On the Stand: The People v. Big Meat & Dairy
Speakers: Esteban Gast (Comedian), Joanna Hausmann (Writer, Comedian), Milana Vayntrub (Actor, Comedian), Joey Bragg (Actor, Comedian), Anna Garcia (Comedian), Suzie Hicks (Educator, Filmmaker)
The summit’s comedian lawyers are back for the second edition of the On the Stand mock trial. This time, the meat and dairy industries' messaging tactics are on trial: from the "Got Milk" celebrity campaign that permeated the collective psyche to the current misconceptions clouding public understanding of food and health.

June 4, 2026
How Food Tells Our Stories
Speakers: Tiny Chef (The Tiny Chef Show), Maggie Baird (Actor, Activist), Carmen Santillan(Founder, Cena Vegan), more to be announced
The food on our plates and the stories told about it are two of the most powerful levers for the planet. This conversation brings together plant-based chefs, storytellers, and advocates to explore how transmedia food messaging is shifting culture, from the internet's tiniest herbivore chef to the frontlines of plant-based food advocacy, and what it looks like when the kitchen and creativity become catalysts for climate action.

Greenlight California: Why Hollywood’s Future Depends on California’s Infrastructure
Speakers: Bill Wolkoff (Writer, Co-EP, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Carter Lavin (Co-Founder, Transbay Coalition and Author If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight)
From greenlighting High Speed Rail development projects to keeping film and TV production in LA, California stands at a pivotal crossroads for the future of its industries. LA's climate infrastructure is directly linked to Hollywood's long-term viability, and this session brings together cross-industry coalitions to imagine and shape what that future could look like.

Seeking Common Ground: Stories to Shape A New Era of Conservation
Speakers: Benji Backer (Founder, Nature is Nonpartisan), Scott Shigeoka (Author, SEEK, Creator, Curiosity Mobile), Sacha Spector (Director of Environmental Programs, Doris Duke Foundation)
A new wave of creators is rewriting who belongs in the environmental story, reaching people who care deeply about the places their families call home but who've felt left out or caricatured by the mainstream conversation. They have real stakes in what happens next. Durable environmental action requires nuance and consensus. We'll explore which creators are breaking through authentically, how fuller stories are pulling in the audiences the mainstream is missing, and how this movement can grow the widespread coalition of common ground it needs.

Global Spotlight: India’s Creative Economy, Climate Reality, & Global Reach
Speakers: Richa Moorjani (Actor, Never Have I Ever), Tamseel Hussain (Founder, pluc.tv), 
India has spent decades developing climate solutions at scale, with a creativity that matches the ambition of its people, adapting, innovating, and building responses to a crisis already reshaping lives across 1.4 billion residents. The Climate Scriptwriting Lab, launched by Pluc.tv and Netflix India, is bringing those solutions to the screen. This conversation explores why India's storytelling tradition is uniquely equipped to carry that weight, what makes Indian stories distinct, why global demand for them is growing, and why the intersection of one of the world's great creative economies with one of its most urgent climate realities is a moment the rest of the world should be paying attention to.

Chew On This: LIVE Doc Pitch
Competition Judges: James Wilks (The Game Changers) and Kip Andersen (What The Health, Cowspiracy) and Stephanie Soechtig (Poisoned, Fed Up)
A live pitch show down for storytellers brave enough to tackle our broken food system. Take the stage in LA, win up to $50,000 and help us figure out what on earth we’re supposed to be eating. 

SCORCHED: Comedy Show
Comedians: Reggie Watts (Comedian & Musician), Esteban Gast (Comedian), Rasheda Crockett (Actor, Comedian), Andrew Zuber (Magician, TV Writer), Brittany Bell Surratt (Comedian), Brad Einstein (Comedian, Writer, Puppeteer), and Sketch performed by CU Boulder performers Chloe Hull, Koyote Manske, Liam Connelly, and Sam Nelson.
An interactive comedy and variety show to close out the 2026 conference. 

Hollywood Climate Summit partners include Minderoo Pictures, The Carmack Collective, Netflix, Climate Power, Doris Duke Foundation, NRDC Rewrite the Future, Universal Entertainment, Re:wild, CAA Foundation, UTA Foundation, SmartSource, Who Let The Docs Out, US High Speed Rail, Warner Bros. Discovery, Hip Hop Caucus, SPIKE Center for Sustainability Education, Scriptation, UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Better Food Foundation, Rebel Cheese, Setswap. 

Committed to promoting sustainable event practices, the summit is working with multiple partners like Good Planet Innovation, r.World, Cinelease, Quixote, Saniset Fleet, Support + Feed, Everyday Action, + more for low-emission transportation, reusable drinkware, and a plant-based, locally-sourced food experience.

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