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Ramapati Kumar

Ramapati Kumar

Founder and CEO of the Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED), a public policy expert and social entrepreneur working on climate, energy and just transition issues in India.

Sep 3, 2026

3:16
Where were you born? Where did you grow up? How did you form Seed and got into climate and energy space? But basically, in a sense, tell us your story.
3:30
Yeah, thanks a lot, Sandeep.
3:33
You know, like, you know, if I'm really honest, I would say that my journey into a climate work was not something, you know, like made somewhere.
3:46
Actually, you know, like it was more like I'm walking towards it, you know, even before I had any language for climate change or anything that I have heard in my life.
3:57
Of course, I grew up in a village.
4:00
where my grandfather was my source of inspiration and guidance.
4:07
And if I would say that he was the natural environmentalist, I would say that even if anyone would have talked about this nomenclature called environmentalist, and he had a perfect understanding about the environment, he did not read anything in the textbook or anything like that.

8 MINS LATER

12:17
So I just wanted to understand what was the thinking behind creating a dedicated just transition task force in Jharkhand?

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