Yerim is a City Finance Manager, supporting the delivery of sectoral finance activities across the C40 x Global Covenant of Mayors Joint Programme and the Lowering Organic Waste Methane (LOW-M) initiative.
In her role, Yerim manages the waste pillar of C40’s finance work, coordinating inputs into the LOW-M coalition and helping cities access support for methane mitigation through research, partnerships, and finance solution tools. She also contributes to finance-focused engagements across adaptation, energy, transport, and ports sectors – including investor roundtables, finance academies and tools that enable cities to unlock climate finance. Yerim works closely with the wider team to strengthen programme delivery systems, monitoring, and planning processes.
Previously, Yerim was part of C40’s Inclusive Climate Action (ICA) team, where she supported monitoring, evaluation, and learning, researched climate migration and loss and damage, and helped cities embed equity into their climate action through the ICA Fund and Forum.
Yerim holds a Master’s in Urban Development Planning from University College London. Before joining C40, she worked in public relations and strategic communications across Seoul, Ho Chi Minh City, and Mysore – including leading external relations and co-organising an inter-Korean orchestra project under a UN peacebuilding initiative. She is passionate about climate justice and is committed to making climate finance more inclusive, particularly in underfunded areas like waste and methane abatement.