Morgan Taylor#13215

Morgan Taylor

Morgan leads Greengage Environmental Ltd’s Nature team and has over 12 years’ experience leading on biodiverse green infrastructure design and complex ecological assessment for major development schemes and portfolio management projects. He works to deliver Biodiversity and Environmental Net Gain (BNG and ENG) and improvements in ecosystem service provision, complementing wider climate change adaptation measures. He was listed on the ENDS Power List 2023 as one of the UK's 100 most influential environmental professionals. He has sat on the panel for the UKGBC’s Nature Based Solution Steering Group, CIEEM’s Action 2030 Climate Change response group as well as the British Standard for Biodiversity Net Gain working group. He is on the quality review panels for the London Borough of Havering and Essex County Council as the biodiversity specialist. He also contributed to the UKGBC’s ‘Demystifying Green Infrastructure’ guidance document. Morgan is a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv), a Full member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) and holds survey licences for bats and dormice.
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Biodiversity net gain—an environmental consultant’s perspective
Biodiversity net gain—an environmental consultant’s perspective
Practice Notes

This Practice Note looks at biodiversity net gain (BNG) from an environmental consultant’s perspective. It covers: how BNG works in practice; how biodiversity units are calculated; good practice principles for BNG, such as following the mitigation hierarchy, avoiding the loss of biodiversity that cannot be offset elsewhere, engaging stakehoders, addressing risk, achieving the best outcomes for biodiversity, creating a net gain legacy, and optimising sustainability; the stages of the BNG process; and common challenges of delivering BNG in practice.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Experience

  • Environmental Perspectives LLP (2011 - 2011)

Membership

  • Society for the Environment (SocEnv) Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv)
  • Full Member of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (MCIEEM)

Qualification

  • MSci Marine Biology (2012)

Education

  • University of Southampton (2008-2012)

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