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A coalition of environmental organizations, including Greenpeace and Reclaim Finance, responded to the French Senate's inquiry into TotalEnergies. While they welcome the report's critical assessment of TotalEnergies' "climaticide" strategy and its expansion of fossil fuels, they argue that the 33 recommendations lack the binding measures necessary to align the company with the Paris Agreement. The associations specifically criticize the absence of super-profit taxation and the perceived weakness of the French state in regulating the multinational.

The LDCs group expressed mixed reactions to CoP17, welcoming the operationalisation of the Adaptation Committee, the start of national adaptation plans, and the governing instrument of the Green Climate Fund. While the group supported the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, it noted that Durban failed to resolve central mitigation issues, leaving global temperatures on a path to rise by 3 to 4 °C. The LDCs call for developed countries to provide Quantified Emission Limitation and Reduction Commitments (QELRC) and for urgent clarity on the predictability and additionality of climate finance.