BDO Zones: New Economic Development Tools to Accelerate Biomanufacturing Project Development
BDO Zone Ratings are helping communities across North America unlock the potential of local biomass resources to drive economic growth. There is >$11B+ of capital being raised for BDO Zone projects right now with $30B+ of additional private investment across 61 active BDO Zone pipelines.
Jordan will discuss how BDO Zone ratings can help economic developers attract new bio-project development and create jobs. Attendees will gain practical insights on how communities can leverage their regional resources to supercharge local economic development.
About the Speaker
Jordan Solomon
Jordan Solomon
Jordan Solomon is Chairman of the Biofuel Development Opportunity (BDO) Zone Initiative and CEO of Ecostrat where he has overseen the Biomass Advisory Group and Biomass Supply Group for over 25 years. Jordan led the 6-year effort to develop the Standards for Biomass Supply Chain Risk (BSCR) and co-chaired CSA’s Technical Committee to develop Canada’s National BSCR Standards (CSA W209:21).
He is currently leading the BDO Zone Initiative to its goal of catalyzing and accelerating new bio-based plant development across North America with “1000 BDO Zones in 4 years”.
