Strong action on climate change and clean energy would generate 90,000 new jobs across Queensland by 2030, tens of thousands more than the Adani coal mine, greens groups say.

The research released by the Australian Conservation Foundation, and based on modelling by the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research, claims many of those jobs would be created in regional Queensland.

"The real jobs boom in Queensland is in clean energy and protecting the 70,000 jobs that depend on a healthy Great Barrier Reef, not in Adani's reef-wrecking coal mine," ACF campaigner Gavan McFadzean said on Thursday.