New Delhi, June 19 -- India and several developing countries have expressed disappointment after a key climate finance discussion was excluded from the Bonn Climate Talks agenda, vowing to raise the issue at November's COP30 summit in Brazil. The dispute centred on Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement, which mandates that developed countries provide financial resources to assist developing nations with both mitigation and adaptation efforts. The debate over the 9.1 agenda item proposal led to a 30-hour delay before talks could begin. "We are extremely disappointed with the reluctance of developed countries to discuss their legal obligations to provide finance to developing countries," said Amandeep Garg, additional secretary at ministry of environment, forests and climate change, who represented the Indian delegation. The Like Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) group and the G77 and China had proposed agenda items on both the legal obligation of wealthy countries to provide climate finance and another on unilateral trade measures. However, these were not adopted after the European Union and other developed nations refused to agree. "Without enough affordable financial support, developing countries cannot address the challenges posed by climate change," Garg said at the agenda adoption session, backing the LMDC position. "We do not understand how this process can engage in article 9.1 without which climate action in developing countries cannot be taken in scale, scope and speed" Garg added: "It has been 10 years of the Paris Agreement and still the items which are required to be discussed, we are not discussing them." Diego Pacheco, Bolivia's negotiator and spokesperson for the LMDC group, said, "You can deny us the starting point but be rest assured, the LMDC will raise these items at COP30." The African Group also highlighted the implementation of Article 9.1 as critical to their region. EU negotiators said their "positions and motivations (were) being mischaracterised". The agenda was adopted on Tuesday after extensive behind-closed-doors consultations. UN climate chief Simon Stiell acknowledged the difficulty of the negotiations whilst urging progress on mandated items....