At the meeting, which ended on Thursday, negotiators slimmed down the cumbersome 90-page text of a draft deal by a few pages as the language was edited — but no options were weeded out.
A plan was agreed to consolidate the text further, and to provide more structure by late July, well before the next round of talks begin at the end of August.
Only 10 days of negotiating time remain before the Nov. 30 start of the U.N. climate conference in Paris, where the new agreement is due to be finished and adopted.
Despite the lack of headline-grabbing news from the June 1-11 Bonn meeting, and a view from some countries — including the United States and the European Union — that the pace must pick up, many officials took a pragmatic view.
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The co-chairs steering the talks said they would produce a new document on July 24, which will begin to sort the elements of the draft text into a potential legal agreement and an accompanying set of other decisions.
The outcome in Paris is expected by many to take the form of a package based around a legally binding accord of no more than about 20 or 30 pages.
The EU said the July document from the co-chairs should enable negotiators to get down to the substance of the key issues that must be hammered out for Paris, in advance of when they next meet in Bonn at the end of the summer.
Those issues include a proposed long-term goal to reduce carbon emissions and limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or less, another goal on adapting to extreme weather and rising seas, and increased finance to help developing countries deal with climate impacts and adopt clean energy.
"We have to somehow bridge the gap between political eagerness to reach a good agreement in Paris and complex technical negotiations," said Elina Bardram, head of the European Commission delegation at the talks.
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