Josh Frydenberg insists Paris climate deal lives on, despite MPs' claims

George Christensen has endorsed Craig Kelly's view that Donald Trump's election means the agreement is 'cactus'

The energy and environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, has rejected his environment committee chairman Craig Kelly's assessment that the Paris agreement on climate change is dead with Donald Trump as president.

But just an hour after Frydenberg's comments, the high-profile conservative backbencher George Christensen backed in Kelly's view that the agreement was "cactus".