
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.
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Sep 3, 2026
From Task Force to Transition: Building Institutions That Work | ft. Ramapati Kumar
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Sandeep PaiHOST
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.

Ramapati KumarGUEST
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.

Ramapati KumarGUEST
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.

Ramapati KumarGUEST
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

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