2024–2026Ongoing
International cooperation initiative: operating rules and system upgrade
Operating rules, guidelines and templates; later a system review and results framework
Track record
Selected projects delivered by Green Idea Lab, and the founder’s teaching, advisory and project experience.
Firm projects
2024
MDB cooperation pipeline and terms of reference
Identified MDB environmental projects and drafted their terms of reference
2026
Asia-Pacific environmental cooperation program: directive and guidelines
Directive and guidelines; support for consultations with multilateral banks and UN agencies
2026
Institutional readiness for GCF accreditation of an international organization
Reviewed internal control, fiduciary and safeguard systems and supported their adoption
2025–2026
Ghana Article 6 project: preliminary feasibility study
Applied AMS-III.BG; led financial, legal and economic feasibility
2025
Mitigation model for a rice-based bioplastic product
Baseline and emission factor review, Article 6.2/6.4 pathway, comparative LCA
2026Ongoing
MDB-linked technical assistance on marine plastics recycling in Vietnam
Policy and regulatory analysis, business model, stakeholder consultation
Earlier firm projects (before 2023)
- GCF commercialization advice for an integrated climate solution
- Analysis of projects approved at GCF Board meetings B.28–B.30 for a central ministry
- GCF Readiness Delivery Partner study for a national research institute
Founder’s experience
Byung Il Jang has worked across climate finance, international development cooperation and climate-tech entrepreneurship, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Samil PwC. He has given many lectures and served on many advisory and evaluation panels, and works with partners as a lecturer, adviser, evaluator and project partner.
Teaching and talks
From graduate courses to training for public agencies and talks for companies and founders.
- Invited Professor, KAIST Graduate School of Green Growth and Sustainability; teaches Climate Technopreneurship (3 credits, in English)
- Faculty, executive ESG program: the voluntary carbon market
- Training for public agencies: writing MDB project and feasibility reports, analysing GCF projects, and entering international water-sector cooperation
- UN training institute: designing climate projects with a theory of change and logical framework, for government officials from Asia-Pacific countries
- Talks for companies and founders on climate tech, ESG strategy and net-zero transition (university and regional start-up centers and others)
Lecture topics
- Climate finance and the GCF
- MDB and ODA project design
- Voluntary and Article 6 carbon markets
- ESG and climate disclosure
- Climate-tech entrepreneurship
Advisory and evaluation
Policy advice and project evaluation for government committees, public agencies and international organizations.
- Carbon neutrality and green growth implementation review advisory group, government committee
- Member, carbon neutrality and green growth committee of a local government
- Member, risk management and internal audit committee of an international organization
- Adviser and evaluation panel member for environmental and development cooperation agencies, including GCF and MDB support programs
- Adviser to a financial regulator’s green finance task force; member of a sustainable and climate finance study group
- Judge and mentor for climate-tech start-ups, including a national climate-tech competition and university start-up programs
Projects and research
He helps institutions and projects qualify for climate finance, and has worked on GCF accreditation and project development since before founding Green Idea Lab.
- GCF accreditation of a state-owned bank; led the response to the Accreditation Panel on environmental and social safeguards (at an accounting firm)
- GCF proposals for developing countries: flood management in Morocco, smart farming in DR Congo, early warning in Cambodia
- Korea liaison officer for a European SME market-entry program; advised European SMEs entering and partnering in Korea
- Carbon market and disclosure work: responses to the EU CBAM, a TCFD report, and a green taxonomy pilot
Speaking and writing
Chairs and panels at conferences and policy forums, and co-authored teaching and reference material.
- Chair at an international NGO’s climate action conference and at a special session of an international water event
- Panelist, ‘Climate ODA’ episode of a government ODA program
- Co-author, Green Growth and Sustainability Trend Book 2023
- Co-author, sustainable and climate finance study report for a financial regulator
Lectures, advice and partnerships
Tell us the topic, timing and audience, and we will work out the best format together.
GCF-related work in detail
- GCF pipeline development advice for a development cooperation agencyPersonal capacity
- GCF project development support for an environmental agencyPersonal capacity
- Mongolia forest carbon GCF project advice for a national research institutePersonal capacity
- GCF Project Preparation Facility application for a Cambodia early warning systemPersonal capacity
- Guidebook on winning GCF and international finance projects for an environmental agencyPrevious employer
- GCF project development for flood management in MoroccoPrevious employer
- GCF accreditation application and review support for a state-owned bankPrevious employer
- Smart farm GCF scale-up strategy and a DR Congo PPF proposalPrevious employer
- GCF engagement strategy for an environmental agencyPrevious employer
- GCF accreditation for a state-owned bank, including the response to the Accreditation Panel on environmental and social safeguardsPrevious employer