The UN Secretary-General's office was well positioned to provide such leadership yet, other than appointing the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, the UN Secretary-General has no specific mandate to address climate change and, until 2006, no Secretary-General had actively engaged on the issue. Climate change was identified due to the lack of agreement on how to move beyond the Kyoto Protocol, which, it had become clear, was unlikely ever to attract wider participation and thus serve as an effective instrument to achieve the objective of the Convention. The transition team initially developed a strategy premised on two elements: the negotiations taking place under the UNFCCC had the same actors meeting over and over again, without significant progress; and the actors involved in the negotiations needed to expand up to the Head of State level.72 The Secretary-General's early engagement on climate change was also in line with the aim to reorient the United Nations away from the traditional high-diplomacy of war and peace towards the paradigm of the new multilateralism.