Australia is on track to meet its 2020 emissions-reduction target and other countries are not, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says.
Ms Bishop is in New Zealand to co-host the World Humanitarian Summit Pacific regional meeting in Auckland, where environmental issues are topping the three-day agenda.
Before the meeting she assured journalists she was confident that Australia would hit its current five per cent emissions reduction target.
"We are on track to meet our 2020 targets. Other countries will not," she said.
She said she would be announcing post-2020 targets in time for the next major climate conference in Paris in December.
"I believe that they will be responsible and reflect Australia's specific economic conditions and contribution," Ms Bishop said.
The United Nations-led meeting is being attended by 140 delegates, including senior charity and relief fund heads, UN officials and Pacific country leaders and comes before the World Humanitarian Summit held in Istanbul in May 2016.
Humanitarian challenges from international conflicts, disasters and climate change are among the key issues on the agenda.
Ms Bishop said she hoped the meeting would offer up "practical and pragmatic solutions and ideas to deal with the natural disasters that we are likely to face in the near future".
To this end, she unveiled the Humanitarian Innovation Challenge, a $2 million fund designed to encourage individuals, the public and private sectors, academics and NGOs to identify creative solutions to the challenges faced by Pacific communities as a result of natural disasters.
The innovations will be shared at the Istanbul summit, Ms Bishop said.
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