The federal energy minister is putting pressure on Labor to ditch its 45 per cent emissions reduction and instead support the coalition's lower goal.
The coalition has a 26 per cent emissions reduction target on 2005 levels by 2030, which it is confident it can achieve despite emissions increasing in recent years.
"The business community wants bipartisanship. Now is the opportunity. We've won an election going in with a 26 per cent target. The onus is now on Labor to join with us and create certainty," Angus Taylor told The Australian on Tuesday.
But Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has made his position on climate change clear, making it a key focus of diplomatic relations with Australia.
"Let us take the same underdog attitude that inspired your parliamentary victory to the global fight against climate change," he wrote in a congratulatory message to Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Facebook.
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"By working closely together, we can turn the tides in this battle - the most urgent crisis facing not only the Pacific, but the world."
Meanwhile, Labor is licking its wounds after Saturday's shock defeat, with the party now looking at its policies while a new leader is chosen.
Although it had been dubbed the climate change election, Labor's stronger approach to the environment failed to get the party over the line.
Labor's agriculture spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon says his party needs to balance its climate plan with support for the coalmining industry.
"We didn't have any anti-coal policies but we equivocated on Adani and we were never really prepared to express our support for the coalmining industry," he told Seven's Sunrise program.
"We need to be clearer - we support the mining industry and the jobs it creates. If that's our policy why not just say it?"
But new Warringah MP Zali Steggall, who won the Sydney seat from former prime minister Tony Abbott on a campaign largely focused on climate change, says the emissions target needs to be more ambitious.
"On the current targets of the coalition we have very little, about a 25 per cent chance, of staying under a two degree warming world," she told Sky News.
"As a mum that doesn't reassure me, and I think Scott Morrison has such a fantastic opportunity to lead."
