Ecostrat Article Shows Need for BDO Zones to Reduce Wildfire Risks

Jordan Solomon, President of Ecostrat, recently authored an article in Biofuels Digest about how BDO (Biofuel Development Opportunity) Zones can help to mitigate wildfire impacts. As Jordan writes, market-based solutions are criticial to help pay the costs of forest fuel treatments that remove excess vegetation and convert it to beneficial uses. One way to do this is to establish BDO Zones in high-risk wildfire regions. BDO Zones are a market-based approach that can mitigate wildfire dangers by catalyzing the development of new biomanufacturing projects that convert hazardous excess forest biomass into valuable biofuels.

BDO Zones attract new biomanufacturing plants to strategically selected regions that have been independently certified as having biomass surpluses, strong supply chains, and infrastructure suitable for bio-based development. BDO Zone ratings signal overall “regional readiness” to support biomanufacturing projects that produce biofuels and more.  Achieving an ‘AA’, ‘A’ or ‘BBB’ level BDO Zone rating powerfully signals to investors and developers worldwide that a region offers an ideal, low-risk location for siting new bio-based production facilities.

To learn more about BDO Zones, see the article in Biofuels Digest and visit Ecostrat’s website.