Harri Moora specialises in environmental policy and management tools related to sustainable consumption and production (EMS, EPE, LCA, eco-design).

He is also working on waste management related issues such as environmental and economic assessment of waste management systems/technologies, development and evaluation of regulatory and economic instruments for waste management.

Harri Moora has worked for SEI Tallinn since 1998, first as a researcher, and since 2001 as a programme director of the Environmental Management Programme.

Work experience before SEI
- Researcher at Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Geological Survey of Estonia

- Research Assistant (M.Sc. student) at Institute of Geology, University of Tartu, Estonia

Education
- PhD candidate, Institute of Environmental Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

- MSc in Environmental Management and Policy, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University, Sweden

- Bachelor of Science in Geology, University of Tartu, Estonia

Projects
- Business & Electronic Sustainable Management Research Action: Training Efficiency and Resources (BE-SMARTER).

- Evaluation of the landfill tax/charge system in Estonia.

- Evaluation of life cycle based environmental impacts and economic cost of alternative scenarios for municipal waste management in Estonia.

- Project on Regional Cooperation in Waste Management (RECO) - waste management and spatial planning project in cooperation between partners from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Publications

• Incineration of Municipal Solid Waste in the Baltic States: Influencing Factors and Perspectives (Book chapter - 2012)

• Environmental assessment and sustainable management options of leachate and landfill gas treatment in Estonian municipal waste landfills (Journal article - 2011)

• Natural environment and the quality of life (Report - 2010)

• Getting to policy impact: Lessons from 20 years of bridging science and policy with sustainability knowledge (Research report - 2009)

• Electricity Scenarios for the Baltic States and Marginal Energy Technology in Life Cycle Assessments – a Case Study of Energy Production from Municipal Waste Incineration (Journal article - 2009)

• Municipal waste generation and composition in Estonia (Journal article - 2009)

• The impact of municipal solid waste management on greenhouse gas emissions in Estonia (Book chapter - 2009)

• Life Cycle Assessment as a Decision Support Tool for System Optimisation – the Case of Waste Management in Estonia (Other publications - 2009)

• Analysis of the demand and supply of the eco-innovative technologies in Estonia (Report - 2008)

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Projects

• Towards Sustainable Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region: RECO Baltic 21 Tech

  
  

• Analysis of the environmental awarding schemes in Estonia for the Estonian Association for Environmental Management

  
  

• The implementation of EMS in the Estonian Ministry for the Environment

  
  

• The implementation of EMS in the Nordic Council of Ministres Tallinn Office

  
  

• Network for Green Office Standardization in the EU (NeGOSE)

  
  

• The national action plan for environmental management systems 2012-2020

  
  

• Towards Sustainable Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region - RECO Baltic 21 Tech

  
  

• Enabling small business to reduce its environmental footprint - EcoTips 2.0

  
  

• Engaging Business in Biodiversity Protection

  
  

• EMAS Easy MOVE-IT!