Prominent Liberal moderate Andrew Bragg says the desire of conservatives to ditch support for net zero emissions is "absolutely ridiculous" and would make Australia an international outlier.

Ahead of meetings to settle a climate policy this week, Senator Bragg said the focus should be on doing "net zero better than Labor" and he did not expect colleagues would abandon that aspiration, but he would quit the shadow cabinet if they did.

"My view is we won't get to that because I don't believe my colleagues want Australia to be ranked with [the] baddies," he told the ABC's Insiders on Sunday.

"I don't think you can have a fatwa on two words, I think that's too silly for words, frankly. At the end of the day, this is the international standard on decarbonisation … Australia is part of the in

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