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Aarti Khosla — Communicating Climate: Demystifying vs Greenwashing

Director, CarbonCopy, a dedicated platform for climate-related news.

Abhinav Jindal — State of the Indian Power Sector

Abhinav Jindal has over two decades of experience working in the power sector. He is one of the most balanced voices on the subject of energy security and electricity…

Abhinav Sengupta — From Mines to Markets: Unpacking India’s Critical Mineral Strategy

Energy and mining expert

Abhishek Kar — Accelerating Clean Cooking Revolution

Senior Programme Lead at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)

Abinash Mohanty — How Climate Proof are Indian States?

Global Sector Head – Climate Change and Sustainability at IPE Global.

Dr. Aditi Mukherji — Climate Resilience: Role of Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Dr Mukherji has close to two decades of experience working in the water resource management space. She is considered an authority on groundwater governance,…

Aditya Ramji — State of the Indian Energy Transition

Aditya Ramji is an Economist, focusing on transportation and energy transitions, working at the nexus of science, policy and diplomacy. He is currently the Director,…

Aditya Valiathan Pillai — Heat is On! Can India adapt to warming weather?

Aditya Valiathan Pillai is a fellow with the Initiative for Climate, Energy and Environment (ICEE) at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR). His current work focuses on…

Ajay Kumar Rastogi — Coal and Just Transition in Jharkhand

Mr. Ajay Kumar Rastogi, Chairman of Jharkhand’s Sustainable Just Transition Taskforce. Mr. Rastogi recently retired as the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests after…

Akshat Rathi — How Green is your Money?

He touches upon various aspects of climate and science reporting, entrepreneurship in the green energy sectors and his experience as a roving climate writer. With his…

Alok Kumar — The leaking pipe: Fixing India’s Discoms

Director General, All India Discoms Association (AIDA)

Dr. Anil Kumar Jain — Future of Coal & Just Transition in India

Dr. Anil Kumar Jain. He has held senior positions at key ministries of petroleum, environment, NITI Aayog, and the erstwhile Planning Commission. He recently retired as…

Anil Swarup — Balancing the Complexity of Energy Policies

Anil is the former federal coal secretary of India and one of India’s most well-known bureaucrats. Anil’s three decades working at various levels of government have…

Anisha Dutta — Donald Trump is back and so are Climate Fears

Investigative Journalist

Ann Josey — Energy Transition: 1 Nation, 28 Pathways

Ann Josey is a Fellow at Prayas who works on electricity sector policy and regulation at the national level and in various states. Her current efforts are focused on the…

Anupam Chatterjee — Digging into the Coal Crisis: What, How & Why?

Energy Journalist at Financial Express newspaper

Dr. Arunabha Ghosh — India’s G20 Presidency: Balancing Energy Security and Climate Goals

Council on Energy, Environment, and Water, one of the leading think tanks in India. Dr. Ghosh is an internationally recognized climate and energy policy expert, author,…

Atanu Mukherjee — Catching the Carbon: India’s baby steps in CCUS

CEO of Dastur Energy

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Dr. B. Veera Reddy — Role of State Owned Enterprises in the Energy Transition

Former Director (Technical), Coal India

Bharati Chaturvedi — Plastic Ban, Green Waste & Recycling 500 GW Renewable Energy

Bharati Chaturvedi, Founder and Director of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, talks about how India is managing its waste currently, with a focus on solar…

Bill Spindle — How Global Conflicts Are Reshaping India’s Energy Transition

Independent Energy Transition and Climate Journalist

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Chandni Singh — Climate change impacts & adaptation: Does India have a plan?

Chandni Singh, Senior Researcher at Indian Institute for Human Settlements. Chandni is one of the co-authors of the IPCC report and has authored many other important…

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D V Giri — India’s Wind Sector: Phoenix or Ashes?

Mr. D V Giri is the secretary general of Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association (IWTMA), the industry lobby body for wind turbine makers. Giri has held senior…

Dr. Debajit Palit — Going off grid: Greening India’s power needs

Professor in NTPC School of Business

Deepak Tandon — Role of State Owned Enterprises in the Energy Transition

Executive Director of the Carbon Management and Sustainability Group at ONGC Ltd.

Deepshika Arora — India’s Energy Security and the Transition from Coal Power

University of Texas at Austin

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Gauri Singh — The Next Leaps of India’s Energy Transition

Deputy Director-General, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Girish Sethi — Hard to Abate, Harder to Ignore: Decarbonizing India’s Heavy Industry

Senior Director of the Energy Program at TERI

Gyanesh Chaudhary — Has the sunrise moment of Indian solar manufacturing arrived?

Gyanesh Chaudhary, founder and managing director, Vikram Solar. Vikram Solar based in Kolkata was one of the foremost manufacturers in the Indian solar industry and now…

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Harald Winkler — Money, Scale, Intent: Path to Climate Mitigation

Harald Winkler is Director of the Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town. He co-directs the programme Mitigaiton Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS), out of which…

Harjeet Singh — Is India walking the talk on its Climate Promises?

Harjeet Singh, Senior Adviser at Climate Action Network. Harjeet is a global expert on the issues of climate impacts, migration and adaptation and has spent two decades…

Harsh Shah — InvIT: New-age Funding for Grand Old Power sector

Harsh is an experienced executive with a strong track record of building large infrastructure platforms, developing high performing teams, delivering robust P&L…

Himanshu Gupta — Coding Climate Action: Can AI save the Earth?

Himanshu Gupta is CEO and founder of ClimateAI, a US based climate technology solutions provider. Himanshu is an IIT Kharagpur and Stanford University alumni made his…

Hisham Mundol — From cow burps to garbage mounds: The Methane Fix

Chief Advisor in India to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Dr. Hisham Zerriffi — The Grand Energy Access Challenge: India’s Journey & Path Ahead

Hisham Zerriffi is an Associate Professor in Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He was previously an Assistant Professor and the…

Hridayesh Joshi — Climate Change: Impact on India’s most vulnerable?

Hridayesh is a freelance journalist and also contributes to CarbonCopy Hindi – a dedicated news website for environment and climate change reporting. A journalist for…

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Dr. Indu K Murthy — Heat Series (part 2): Building Livable Cities for a Warming India

Sector Head-Climate, Environment & Sustainability, CSTEP

Irfan Mohamed — Pathways to Round the Clock RE in India

South Asia Analyst at climate analytics nonprofit TransitionZero.

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Jacob Koshy — COP28: Hits, Misses and Vested Interests

Jacob Koshy is Deputy Science Editor at The Hindu

Dr. Jai Asundi — From Labs to Laws: How Science Can Shape India’s Climate Future

Executive Director of the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP)

James Irungu Mwangi — COP27: Conversation to Concrete Action?

James Mwangi is a sustainable development and inclusive growth expert with a career spanning more than two decades in public policy, energy and strategic planning.

Jaya Dhindaw — Sweat, Drown, Parch: Why India’s megacities can’t handle extreme weather?

Executive Program Director, Sustainable Cities and Director, WRI India Ross Center

Jayant Sinha — India’s Energy Leadership for Global Net Zero

President, Everstone Group and Visiting Professor in Practice, London School of Economics (LSE).Former Minister of State, Government of India.

Dr. Joshua Busby — India’s Energy Security and the Transition from Coal Power

University of Texas at Austin

Jyoti Mukul — Slips and Hits of India’s Oil & Gas Story

Energy infrastructure analyst and writer

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Kanika Chawla — Financing India’s Green Leap

Kanika is the program manager for the United Nations Inter-agency Mechanism on Energy where she is working on Sustainable energy for all. She has earlier worked with…

Karthik Ganesan — Beneath the Surface: India’s Geothermal Opportunity

Fellow and Director (Strategic Partnerships), Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).

Dr. Kartikeya Singh — Climate Readiness: State of Play in Indian States

Dr. Singh has worked for decades fostering energy transition and climate action in Indian states along with helping these states build global partnerships.

Kartiki Negi — Heat Series: Crisis, Data and Denial

Climate Imapcts Lead, Climate Trends

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M Raghuram — Climate Stories from the Corners of India

Freelance writer, Karnataka

Madhura Joshi — From Declarations to Delivery: How Climate Diplomacy Works

Programme Lead – Asia Hub at E3G

Manish Mishra — Future of Coal & Just Transition – Greening the Steel

Manish Mishra. A seasoned steel sector executive, Mishra has held various roles at a variety of locations in Tata Steel, one of India’s leading steel producers. Mishra…

Mayank Aggarwal — Fossil fuels to Renewables: Are countries planning a Just Transition?

Mayank is one of the best writers on environment and climate change in India, whose work has been a trailblazer.

Mitali Mukherjee — Fact Finders in the era of Global Disorder and Climate Crisis

Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, UK

Mohit Bhargava — Role of State Owned Enterprises in the Energy Transition

Former CEO, NTPC Green Energy Ltd.

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Dr. Navroz K. Dubash — Money, Scale, Intent: Path to Climate Mitigation; Should India Join the Global Net Zero Chorus?

Navroz K Dubash is a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, where he conducts research and writes on climate change, energy, air pollution, water policy, and the…

Neelima Jain — Why India’s Energy Transition Is a States Story

Director, Industrial and Trade Policy, IECC, UC Berkeley

Neha Kumar — Bonds, Banks & the Battle for a Greener India

Head of South Asia at the Climate Bonds Initiative.

Nikit Abhyankar — Solar after Sundown: Building Futuristic Energy Systems

Faculty, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley Co-faculty director, India Energy and Climate Center, UC Berkeley

Nitin Sethi — COP26: Negotiations, Targets and Realities (Part-I)

Senior journalist Nitin Sethi who has attended and closely followed climate negotiations and COP conferences for close to two decades. Nitin is a member of reporters…

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P.M. Prasad — From the Depths to Decarbonization: Coal India’s 50-Year Story

Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Coal India Limited

Parag Sharma — Risks to Rewards: Tale of building an RE company in India

Chief Executive Officer, Resolven (formerly Zelestra)

Dr. Prabhat Upadhyaya — Global South’s G20 Streak: A Turning Point for Climate and Energy Leadership?

G20 and Multilateral Advisor, African Climate Foundation.

Prarthana Borah — Future-Proofing Indian Businesses: The ESG & Sustainability Imperative

Vice President, Momentum

Pratik Agarwal — Wires, Transformers and Knights of the Grid

Managing Director, Sterlite Electric, and Chairman, Resonia and Serentica Renewables

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Dr. R Srikanth — Making India’s coal power efficient: What’s the right path?

Dr. R Srikanth, Professor & Dean, School of Natural Sciences and Engineering at the National Institute of Advanced Studies who proposes that India can shut down its old…

Dr. Rahul Tongia — Path to Climate Justice in a Net Zero World

Dr. Rahul Tongia is a Senior Fellow with The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP), where he leads Energy and Sustainability studies. A globally renowned…

Dr. Rahul Walawalkar — Energy Storage: The Catalyst to India’s Energy Transition

Dr. Rahul Walawalkar, President and Managing Director of Customized Energy Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. Rahul is also the founder and Executive Director for India Energy…

Rajesh K Mediratta — Towards a thriving power market in India

Mediratta is a sector veteran and has worked with Load Despatch Centres, power system operator and has been instrumental in launching India’s first electricity trading…

Rajiv Goyal — New Records, New Challenges: Is India’s Power Supply System Equipped?

CEO & whole time Director EKI power trading

Rakesh Nannewar — Climate Adaptation Challenge for Indian Agriculture

PhD scholar

Ramapati Kumar — From Task Force to Transition: Building Institutions That Work

CEO, Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED)

Richa Mishra — What 2026 holds for India’s Energy Transition

Journalist and Author

Richard Rossow — Tracing the Arc of the US–India Energy Cooperation

Senior Adviser and Chair in India and Emerging Asia Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Rishika Pardikar — Climate Adaptation Challenge for Indian Agriculture

An Indian environmental journalist

Dr. Rohit Chandra — Energy Transition: 1 Nation, 28 Pathways; King Coal: Its Journey & the Endgame

Dr. Rohit Chandra, who is an Assistant professor at IIT Delhi and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Policy and Research. Rohit is an expert on India’s coal sector and…

RR Rashmi — COP26: Negotiations, Targets and Realities (Part-II)

For this episode, we interviewed RR Rashmi, Distinguished Fellow and Programme Director, Earth Science and Climate Change at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).…

Ruchita Shah — Aligning India’s Power Systems with Energy Transition

Energy Analyst-Asia, Ember

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S K Soonee — Transformation of India’s Power Grid. Part 1: The Building Blocks

First CEO of the Power System Operation Corporation (now Grid India)

Saloni Sachdeva Michael — How India’s Energy Transition is a States Story

Lead Energy Specialist, India Clean Energy Transition at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

Sanjeeb Mukherjee — Climate Change On Your Plate

Agriculture Editor, Business Standard

Sanjiv Kumar Singh — India’s Critical Minerals Strategy: From Exploration to Supply Chains

Chief Advisor, WAPCOS Limited; Former Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Copper Limited

Sarita C Singh — India’s annual summer affair with Coal/Power Crisis

Sarita C Singh, a seasoned energy journalist and an expert on fossil fuels and energy policies

Saugata Datta — Role of Mini Grids in Mega Challenge of Energy Access

Saugata Datta, India Country Director of Husk Power Systems, a company that operates 100s of mini-grids across India and Africa. Saugata has worked with several leading…

Saurabh Kumar — From Star Rating to Efficient Fans: Why Energy Efficiency Matters

He has previously worked with Energy Efficiency Services Limited as Executive Vice Chairperson and was appointed as Secretary of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE).

Dr. Seaver Wang — Emerging economy of Critical Minerals: Are countries prepared?

Dr. Wang writes on critical minerals and recently published a paper titled ‘Future demand for electricity generation materials under different climate mitigation…

Shalu Agrawal — The Grand Energy Access Challenge: India’s Journey & Path Ahead

Shalu leads The Council’s work on residential energy access, demand-side management and power sector reforms. She uses data to study the changing energy landscape and…

Shibani Ghosh — The Right to Save our Future

Advocate on Record Supreme Court of India and a visiting fellow at the Sustainable Futures Collaborative

Shuchita Jha — Climate Stories from the Corners of India

Shuchita is a freelance journalist currently based in France. After working with The Times of India in India for 4 years, she moved to France to explore new cultures.

Siddharth Singh — Urbanizing India: Impact on energy demand and climate

Siddharth Singh, co-lead author of India Energy Outlook 2021, published by the International Energy Agency. Siddharth has researched and written extensively about global…

Dr. Simon Evans — COP26: Key highlights & implications

Dr. Simon Evans, Deputy Editor of Carbon Brief, a UK-based website specializing in the science and policy of climate change. Simon is a leading climate and energy…

Srivatsan Iyer — Changing face of India’s Green Energy sector

Srivatsan Iyer is well regarded for his ability to strengthen businesses in new geographies and collaborate effectively across cultures. He has held executive roles in…

Subrahmanyam Pulipaka — Green Energy & Ecology: Land, Farmers & an Endangered Bird

Subrahmanyam Pulipaka is leading the fight from the end of the industry. He is CEO of National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI), a non-profit, non-government…

Sudarshan Varadhan — Rooftop Freedom: Developing Nations’ Tryst with Solar; G20 Special: Will India change the tone for Global Energy Transition?

Sudarshan has been reporting on the dynamic energy sector for close to a decade, earlier placed in New Delhi and now from Singapore. He has done incisive reporting on…

Sumant Banerji — Electric Vehicles in India: Smooth Drive or Bumpy Road

Sumant Banerji, Senior Journalist and Associate Editor of the Business Today magazine. Sumant has researched and written about the Indian auto sector for well over a…

Sunil Jain — Indian Renewables post Covid: Sunset or Silver lining?

Sunil Jain, former CEO, Hero Future Energies and a renewable sector veteran. Sunil has led two clean energy companies in India. He has also been vital in pushing the…

Swati D’Souza — India’s G20 Presidency: Navigating Complex Geopolitical Waters; Gas as a bridge fuel: a dream too far-fetched?

Swati D’Souza is the India Lead Analyst and Coordinator at the International Energy Agency (IEA). She is a prominent expert in the field of energy policy and analysis,…

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Tazeen Qureshy — Climate Stories from the Corners of India

Tazeen Qureshy is an independent journalist based in Odisha, reporting on rural issues, climate and environment, gender, education, health and sports. She holds a…

Dr. Tejal Kanitkar — Path to Climate Justice in a Net Zero World

Dr. Kanitkar is a leading scholar and thinker on climate and energy policy and has decades of experience working in this area. She has published extensively on topics…

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Ulka Kelkar — Rating India’s Climate Action Plan: Going Beyond the Headlines

Ulka Kelkar, Director, Climate program, World Resources Institute India to assess the climate action plan of India and what lies ahead. An economist by training, Kelkar…

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Varad Pande — What will it cost to save the planet?

Varad has held diverse roles across government, multilateral financial institutions, investment organisations etc. working on issues of economic development, social…

Vibhuti Garg — Get Ready for India’s Clean Energy Boom: Hitting the 2030 Target

Director of South Asia at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)

Vijay Shekhawat — Can Green Hydrogen Drive India’s Clean Energy Future?

Vice President (Public Affairs), Thyssenkrupp Nucera

Vijaya Ramachandran — G7 Fossil Finance Ban: Bold Climate Action or Hypocrisy?

Vijaya Ramachandran, Director for Energy and Development at the Breakthrough Institute in the US. Vijaya is a renowned economist with over three decades of experience…

Vikas Mehta — Green Giving: Understanding Climate Philanthropy

Vikas Mehta has decades of experience in philanthropy, strategic planning, fundraising, and portfolio management.

Dr. Vikesh Rajpaul — Repurposing Coal Plants: What India Can Learn from South Africa

General Manager, Just Energy Transition at Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.

Vinay Jaju — Riding into Climate Action

Vinay Jaju is also the co-founder of ONergy and ONskills. He has collaborated with various ministries of Government of India and bilateral organizations such as US…

Vinay Ranjan — Workforce Planning for Business Diversification of Energy Companies

Former Director-Human Resource, Coal India Limited

Vinay Rustagi — Renewable Energy in India: Blip, Boom or Bust?

Vinay Rustagi, co-founder & managing director at Bridge to India (BTI), As the head of the foremost consultancy in the renewable energy space, Vinay is renowned for…

Vishal Pandya — Transformation of India’s Power Grid. Part 2: A New Era beckons

Co-founder, REConnect Energy

Dr. Vishwas Chitale — Heat Series: Crisis, Data and Denial

Fellow and Lead-Climate Resilience, Council on Water, Energy and Environment (CEEW)

Vivek Subramanian — Tailor Fit Green Energy

Vivek has diverse experience across strategy, fund raising, operations and financial management. Prior to starting Fourth Partner Energy, he was the Founding Partner at…

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