Environmental groups want Australia to pressure the United States to continue climate change action despite Donald Trump pulling the country out of an international agreement to cut emissions.
The US president announced on Friday he was withdrawing from the landmark deal signed in Paris at the end of 2015.
Greenpeace Australia Pacific condemned the move but said it believed the rest of the world would continue to make progress on ambitious climate actions.
"President Trump has betrayed the world and the trust of nearly 200 nations with this reprehensible and destructive decision," the environmental group's climate and energy campaigner Nikola Casule told AAP.
"The popular will on climate action is overwhelming and the clean energy revolution is unstoppable."
There are 194 other countries signed on to the agreement, including Australia, which will still account for 87 per cent of the world's emissions.
Australia ratified the deal the day after Mr Trump was elected in November.
"Other major parties to the historic Paris agreement - including China, the EU and India - have signalled they remain firmly committed to the deal," Mr Casule said.
"At the very least, we expect that the rest of the nearly 200 nations will be stepping up and holding the US government to account."
Mr Trump said the US would try to make a deal that was "fair" on climate for the country and suggested the existing agreement was "about other countries gaining an advantage over the United States".
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