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Held in partnership with the United Nations General Assembly, New York’s Climate Week is a massive, decentralized festival that this year ballooned to 900 events taking place all across the city from Sept. 22 to 29. This year, Hollywood names — from Matt Damon and Benedict Cumberbatch to heads of sustainability at Netflix, NBCUniversal and Paramount Global — took a prominent role, taking part in panel discussions, speeches, film screenings and even a vegan hot dog truck (thanks Rainn Wilson).

The confab also saw the debut of the inaugural Climate Film Festival, where 59 films — including such titles as Ecocide, Farming While Black, Hot & Toxic, and The Wild Robot — unspooled over 72 hours, along with a keynote speech by wildlife filmmaker James Honeyborne.

“Climate Week is the nexus of so many things. It’s always a place to learn what’s going on,” René Jones, chief of social impact at UTA, tells The Hollywood Reporter. She...

Drilled, the global climate reporting network expanded in August by award-winning investigative journalist Amy Westervelt, is pleased to announce three new hires: Senior Editor Alleen Brown, previously a staff reporter at The Intercept whose reporting on state and corporate repression of Indigenous-led Dakota Access Pipeline opponents at Standing Rock has been cited in civil rights cases; Senior Editor and Writer Mary Annaïse Heglar, former Hot Take co-host known for her essays that dissect and interrogate the climate crisis; and Senior Editor and Reporter Molly Taft, who won a 2023 Seal Environmental Award for their work at Earther. The new hires will help Drilled expand its cross-border investigations of the companies and organizations blocking global climate action.

Additionally, the company is expanding its global reporting network with two investigative journalists. Jason Pinas is an investigative reporter in Suriname where he covers government corruption and the oil and gas industry as it grows in the region.