Barnaby Joyce wants to keep giving the world coal because he doesn't think there's much prospect of Australia finding a new source of revenue anytime soon.
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The Nationals leaders does not back a target of net zero emissions by 2050, indicating the government needed to explain its impact on regional Australia.
"In any deal, I don't start by saying what I think it's worth, I start by saying how much do you want it," Mr Joyce said on Friday.
The deputy prime minister also said he didn't want to be bullied or berated into accepting the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"It sounds like you're at a baptism, on behalf of your child, denouncing Satan and all his works and all his deeds and on and on it goes," Mr Joyce said.
The IPCC report shows the world is on track for 1.5C of heating by early next decade without immediate, drastic and sustained emissions cuts.
