After attending the Tianjin climate change conference, the ecbi director visited Beijing on the invitation of Councillor Yi Xianliang (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ecbi Fellow) where he had talks with Finance Ministry officials and gave a lecture at Tsinghua University. He then visited the UN Headquarters in New York on the invitation of Ambassador Manjeev Puri (DPR of India, ecbi Fellow) and met individually senior officials from the missions Argentina (forthcoming Chair of G77), Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Antigua and Barbuda (Chair AWG-KP). He also spoke to a number of AOSIS representatives at a meeting convened for this purpose by the PR of Barbados and chaired the PR of Grenada (Chair of AOSIS).