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The Latest: Sleepless climate negotiators hone in on deal

A participant holds a poster amid NGO representatives staging a sit-in protest closed to the plenary session to denounce the first draft COP21 Climate Conference agreement, and put pressure to reach an international agreement to limit global warming, during the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, France, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) A participant holds a poster amid NGO representatives staging a sit-in protest closed to the plenary session to denounce the first draft COP21 Climate Conference agreement, and put pressure to reach an international agreement to limit global warming, during the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, France, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

By Associated Press December 10, 2015 1 min read

LE BOURGET, France (AP) – The latest news related to the U.N. climate conference outside Paris, which runs through Dec. 11. All times local:

11:05 a.m.

Diplomats and climate negotiators worked almost until dawn and have now resumed talks, narrowing down options in a 29-page draft of a global accord to tackle climate change a day before a self-imposed deadline for the unprecedented agreement.

A French diplomat said talks outside Paris continued until about 5 a.m. Thursday (0400 GMT, 11 p.m. EST Wednesday) before resuming midmorning.

The diplomat said a new draft of the accord is expected to be released sometime Thursday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about the negotiations.

The French organizers of the two-week talks want a final agreement by Friday night, though U.N. climate conferences rarely end on time.

The draft released Wednesday left major issues unresolved.

-By Angela Charlton