The 2017 ecbi Pre-COP Training Workshop took place on 4 November 2017, in Derag Livinghotel Kanzler, Bonn. It was attended by 39 participants. The Workshop was addressed by Ambassador Luke Daunivalu, Deputy Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations; Gebru Jember Endalew, Chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group; Pa Ousman, Director of Country Programming of the Green Climate Fund; Benito Müller, Director of ecbi; and Achala Abeysinghe, Head of the ecbi Training and Support Programme. Training sessions followed, on: priorities for the Bonn Climate Change Conference; the COP23 agenda; gender; climate finance; negotiating effectively and mock negotiations; and the transparency framework.