Agenda 21 Speeding Up; Secret UN Document Leaked!

Humans risk causing irreversible and widespread damage to the planet unless there's faster action to limit the fossil fuel emissions that cause climate change, according to a leaked draft United Nations report.

The report "will provide policymakers with a scientific foundation to tackle the challenge of climate change," IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri said in a statement from the panel's office in Geneva. "It would help governments and other stakeholders work together at various levels, including a new international agreement to limit climate change" that countries intend to broker by the end of next year.

The draft was obtained by Bloomberg from a person with official access to it who asked not to be further identified because it hasn't been published yet. It's subject to line-by- line revision by representatives of governments around the world, and a final report is scheduled to be published on Nov. 2 in Copenhagen.

Jonathan Lynn, a spokesman for the IPCC, declined to comment on the contents of the report. The draft "is still a work in progress, which will certainly change -- indeed that is the point of the review -- and so it would be premature to discuss its contents at this stage," Lynn said.

Delaying action will only increase the risks and costs, it said.

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