OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott has plans to play a lead role in convincing China and the United States to sign up for a global climate change deal if he wins government.
Opposition climate change spokesman Greg Hunt said under a coalition government Australia would still be part of a UN climate change process but would also pursue action with key members of Group of 20 nations.
"Where a real global agreement will come is when China and United States reach a point of common position and when that's backed up with India and the EU," Mr Hunt told ABC TV on Thursday.
Mr Hunt said Australia would chair the G20 summit in Brisbane next year and it was in a unique position "to bring together the G4 as the basis for a global agreement".
"I think (Tony's) a fantastic negotiator," he said.
At a community forum in Geelong on Thursday night, Mr Abbott told swinging voters a coalition government would scrap the carbon tax by the middle of 2014.
Instead the coalition would implement its direct action policy, which focuses on storing carbon in soil and vegetation.
It offers firms incentives to reduce their carbon pollution emissions but won't raise revenue, Mr Hunt said.
He fobbed off past comments from former Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull that this was a recipe for "fiscal recklessness".
"The power sector is saying to us they are not expecting to increase their emissions," Mr Hunt said.
"If someone went rogue there's always the provision to take action, but we aren't expecting Australian firms to do that."
Mr Hunt confirmed the opposition would allocate the same amount of money toward climate action as it did at the last election, despite having three years less to reach the 2020 carbon emission reduction target.
The coalition's plans to store carbon in soil may be in doubt.
The ABC reported that a yet to be released CSIRO three-year study into carbon soil storage has found over time soil changes were within the range of 0.3 to two tonnes of Co2 equivalent per hectare per year or lower.
At the top end of that scale, a land mass of 75 million hectares would be needed to abate 150 million tonnes of Co2 equivalent.
Whereas the lower end figure would require 500 million hectares or two-thirds of the country's land mass.
Asked if this was achievable, Mr Hunt replied: "I don't accept that's what we're proposing or that's the only way to do it."
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