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 altogether.

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

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.

Pushed on whether he would quit his role as the opposition’s housing spokesman if the Coalition wal

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