BONN, Germany,  (Reuters) – Rich and poor nations  alike criticised a new blueprint for a U.N. climate treaty yesterday as two weeks of talks among 185 countries ended with  small steps towards an elusive deal.

A streamlined climate draft, meant to help talks on a new  pact, cut out some of the most draconian options for greenhouse  gas and dropped all references to “Copenhagen” — where a U.N.  summit in December fell short of agreeing a treaty.“The group is dismayed that the … text is unbalanced,”  developing nations in the Group of 77 and China said in a  statement. Several of them said the 22-page text wrongly put  emphasis on greenhouse gas curbs by the poor, not the rich.

Among rich nations, the United States said it would study  the text but that some elements were “unacceptable”. The  European Union also expressed “concerns” about the text, which  updates a previous 42-page draft rejected last week.

The new text outlines a goal of cutting world emissions of  greenhouse gases by “at least 50-85 percent from 1990 levels by  2050” and for developed nations to reduce emissions by at least  80-95 percent from 1990 levels by mid-century.

It drops far more radical options, some championed by  Bolivia, for a cut of at least 95 percent in world emissions by  2050 as part of a fight to slow droughts, floods, a spread of  disease and rising sea levels.

Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe of Zimbabwe, who chairs the  U.N. talks on action by all nations to slow global warming, said  the text would be updated for a next meeting in Bonn in August.

Yvo de Boer, the departing head of the U.N. Climate Change  Secretariat, said he felt the main reaction to the text was  that, “yes, it has shortcomings…but that people are willing to  take it as the basis for future work.”

Many delegates say that a new legally binding deal is out of  reach for 2010 and now more likely in 2011. Apart from deep  splits over negotiating texts, U.S. legislation on cutting  emissions is stalled in the Senate.

The May 31-June 11 session was the biggest since Copenhagen,  where more than 120 nations agreed a non-binding deal to limit a  rise in average world temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius  (3.6 F) over pre-industrial times.

But it lacked details of how to reach this goal.     “This session has made important progress…Countries have  been talking to each other rather than at each other,” de Boer  said of the Bonn talks.

De Boer said there was progress on climate funds, sharing  green technology and issues such as slowing deforestation. He  said an extra meeting of negotiators was likely in China before  an annual meeting in Mexico from Nov. 29-Dec. 10. The new draft text keeps some elements of the Copenhagen  Accord, including a plan for aid to developing nations of $10  billion a year from 2010 to 2012, rising to more than $100  billion from 2020.