Unions are warning that wages and jobs will be lost if Australia does not embrace an emissions trading scheme.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has backed the draft Garnaut Report's findings, that inaction on climate change will cause job losses in tourism and agriculture.
ACTU president Sharan Burrow said a potential 15% cut in wages in some sectors, means industry needed to embrace carbon pricing to keep Australia competitive.
"If they sit outside, if they continue to not want to be part of the effort, then we'll lose those jobs because others around the word will be ahead of us with new technologies with world best standards," she said.
"We know everyone has to be invovled."