The Paris agreement has been widely hailed as a positive step forward in addressing climate change for all, although the details on addressing "climate justice" can be best described as sketchy.

He's addressing a group of rough equals (who nonetheless form a hierarchy), he wants to move an agenda forward, and to do so he has to combine suasion and truth in a delicate mixture.

If you can show that you are addressing those goals in an agile manner, then you can often move forward.