Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg has confirmed he would resign from the Coalition frontbench if the parties walked away from the Paris Agreement and pushed back against the move within the Liberals to follow the Nationals and ditch net zero.

“You can’t have a fatwa on two words,” Bragg said on ABC’s Insiders . “This is the international standard. I mean, trying to pretend that you’re not going to say two words is absolutely ridiculous.”

Arguing that increased energy prices were the fault of Labor’s “disastrous” policies, Bragg said any move away from the emissions treaty the Turnbull government signed up to in 2016 would align Australia with “pariah states” such as Syria and Iran.

Senator Andrew Bragg argued that net zero could reduce power prices over time. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

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