
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 Ryerson University. She currently serves on Blue Green Canada’s board of directors.
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Carolyn Kim's Recent Publications

Recommendations to strengthen the Clean Fuel Regulations Submission to Environment and Climate Change Canada
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Climate Policy Leadership in Ontario The Pembina Institute’s recommendations to future leaders
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New federal Clean Fuel Standard headed in the wrong direction
Op-edCanada 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.

Urban Delivery Solutions Initiative Impact Report 2021: A Year in Review
PublicationTo help businesses and fleet operators test and scale up short-haul, return-to-base ZEVs in Canadian cities, the Pembina Institute and UDSI partners developed tools and resources, and conducted research to inform public policies and best practices. We also convened public events that brought together industry, NGOs, government, innovators, and academia and cultivated a community of practice for sustainable urban freight in Canada. Read more about our 2021 successes in our Impact Report.

Recommendations on the transition to zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles Submission to Environment and Climate Change Canada
PublicationThe Pembina Institute supports the Government of Canada’s efforts to engage, coordinate, and collaborate with relevant actors to operationalize its global commitment to enable the full transition to zero-emission (ZE) medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs) by 2040, and to achieve net-zero by 2050.