
Carolyn Kim is the senior director of the Pembina Institute's communities and decarbonization group. She brings 15 years of policy and planning experience from the public, private and non-government sectors to the role. Carolyn is a skilled collaborator, bringing organizations together to accelerate low-carbon solutions in Canadian cities and communities. In 2019, Carolyn initiated Pembina’s Urban Delivery Solutions Initiative to tackle freight emissions.
Carolyn is a registered planner with the Ontario Professional Planners Institute and a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Toronto and a bachelor’s degree in urban and regional planning from Toronto Metropolitan University. She currently serves on Blue Green Canada’s board of directors.
Contact Carolyn Kim
cell: 416-456-1743 • email: carolynk@pembina.org • tweet: @CarolynKim_YYZ
Carolyn Kim's Recent Publications

Women in Energy Transformation: Series Summary Paper Why are Canadian women vital to the coming energy transformation?

Incentives for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicles Program Pembina Institute comments and recommendations

Recommendations to strengthen the Clean Fuel Regulations Submission to Environment and Climate Change Canada

Climate Policy Leadership in Ontario The Pembina Institute’s recommendations to future leaders

New federal Clean Fuel Standard headed in the wrong direction
Canada is in a worldwide competition to attract the capital needed to meet the challenge of net-zero, and yet we are headed in the wrong direction with the current design of the new federal Clean Fuel Standard (CFS). It should be a market driver for non-fossil fuels. Instead, if adopted as written, it would act as a de facto subsidy for the fossil fuel sector.