while other factors were also key to the successful adoption of the paris agreement without the secretarygenerals longterm strategy of raising climate change to the leader level broadening participation to include space at the table for the private sector finance community and civil society and raising public awareness on the issue of climate change an agreement would not have been possible ban kimoon and his team had been planning to cement the legacy of the paris outcome long before cop was held as the celebrations drew to a close they began to leverage the secretarygenerals personal relationships with world leaders to build a movement towards early entry into force of the agreement