Al Gore to Keynote 2026 Hollywood Reporter Sustainability Event

Three of the year’s most buzzed-about small-screen stories will receive big kudos at The Hollywood Reporter’s inaugural Sustainability in Entertainment Honors event taking place on April 23 in partnership with the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance.

The invitation-only celebration will be held at the Bel-Air Hotel and highlight three hourlong series for their trailblazing work in crafting onscreen narratives that bring sustainability issues to the forefront, and behind-the-scenes sustainable production practices.

The awards given will include: Legacy of Sustainable Storytelling, presented to ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy; Achievement in Sustainable Storytelling, presented to Hulu’s Paradise; and Achievement in Sustainable Production, to the Duffer Brothers’ upcoming Netflix series The Boroughs, which debuts May 21.

Longtime Grey’s stars Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr. are confirmed to present their show’s award to Grey’s executive producer and showrunner Meg Marinis and Shondaland chief content officer Allison Eakle. Paradise executive producer/writer John Hoberg and writer Stephen Markley will accept on behalf of their show from series star Sarah Shahi. And the showrunners, creators and EPs of The Boroughs, Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, will receive their series’ honor. Additional program talent will be announced before the event.

“We are thrilled to partner with The Hollywood Reporter to shine a spotlight on remarkable leaders across film and television who are raising the bar for sustainability, both in how stories are made and in the stories themselves,” says Sam Read, executive director of the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance. “These three series exemplify the unique power of entertainment to connect with broad audiences by reflecting the world we live in, and the one we want to build.”

Says THR editor-in-chief Maer Roshan, “We are proud to once again partner with the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance to celebrate great work being done to help make Hollywood and the entertainment industry more sustainable. And our fourth annual sustainability digital issue, publishing April 22, is the perfect editorial companion to these efforts.”

Former Vice President Al Gore, who narrated and starred in director Davis Guggenheim’s Oscar-winning 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, will appear at the event to mark the film’s 20th anniversary and take part in a conversation on the state of sustainability.

The program will also feature a lively panel discussion among leading Hollywood sustainability-focused executives and creatives.

The Sustainability Honors event marks the next phase in THR’s growing partnership with the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance, which kicked off at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.

Writer, director and producer Guillermo del Toro and his 2026 Oscar-winning Netflix film Frankenstein received awards at a special TIFF ceremony for Sustainable Production, while filmmaker Clint Bentley and star-producer Joel Edgerton received an award for Sustainable Storytelling for their 2026 Oscar-nominated Netflix film Train Dreams.