OREANDA-NEWS. UN climate talks remain on track for a global deal to be agreed in Paris, France this year, as the latest negotiating round concluded in Bonn, Germany, today with the prospect of a new draft text to be released in October.

But with only five negotiating days left before the crucial Paris summit, UN delegates are under increasing pressure to pick up the pace as time to secure a strong deal is fast running out.

Some bridging proposals materialised during the negotiating round in Bonn, said Luxembourg's permanent representation to the EU climate attache, Sarah Blau, who attended the talks. UN delegates started to converge on many issues, such as transparency, the need for a dynamic review process and the notion of global stock-take, she said. But it was clear that the text was not yet "fit for purpose" for actual negotiations, Blau said.

Delegates had to grapple with an 80-page draft consisting of three parts: the main Paris agreement, a wider decision text and a third section for items was still unallocated.

At the end of the session, which started on 31 August, the joint chairmen steering UN talks towards a post-Kyoto deal were tasked with the responsibility of releasing a new streamlined version in October before the next round of talks. These will take place from 19-23 October and will be the last before the Paris summit.

The EU's head of delegation, Elina Bardram, also called for an urgent "step change." Delegates are "itching to start drafting" so that they can engage in negotiations "in earnest," she said.

To meet the essential criteria of a negotiating text, the new paper to be compiled by the co-chairs has to be concise, consistent and coherent, she said. This means the document has to be trimmed to a manageable length, consistent terminology used and repetitive language removed. Also, the document can no longer merely be a "repository of different opinions," but instead it should be a coherent narrative outlining clear options, she said.

The co-chairs' plan to appoint a "drafting group" on the first day of the next session will create an opportunity for real headway to be made, said Bardram, who also heads the European Commission's international carbon market unit.

Meanwhile, Algeria today became the 58th country to submit its intended nationally determined contribution (INDC) under the forthcoming Paris deal, pledging to achieve a 27pc share of renewables in its power generation by 2030.

Algeria's submission means almost 70pc of global emissions are now covered, ahead of a synthesis report of all INDCs to be released in November, said UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) executive secretary, Christiana Figueres.

Each country's INDC will eventually be converted into firm nationally determined contributions, but exactly when and how is still being discussed, Figueres said.

The issue is also linked to the legal nature of countries' pledges and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDRRC), one of founding principles of the UNFCC.

The new agreement will be more complex in structure than the Kyoto Protocol as its different components will have different legal standings, Figueres said. So the CBDRRC principle is not going to be "monolithically applied" under the Paris deal, she said.

The Paris deal is complicated because it is a legal text and not merely a political declaration, said France's special climate change envoy, Laurence Tubiana. But she emphasised that the deal's success depends on endorsement at the highest political level, both by ministers and heads of state.

Negotiations are being conducted simultaneously at three different levels: that of negotiator, ministerial and heads of state and "all three levels are working assiduously towards agreement," according to Figueres.

"We all know it is urgent, but the reality is that it is a process and it takes time to design the final product," Figueres said. But the process is moving in the right direction, all the components are on the table and all parties agree on the final destination," she added.