Stephen Fry and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall join calls for carbon pricing to help tackle climate change

Coalition calls on the PM and Rishi Sunak to roll out carbon pricing across the UK economy, taxing emissions on everything from heating to meat-eating

Chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and TV presenter Stephen Fry are backing calls from campaigners and big business for the Government to put a price on pollution.

In a “declaration” being delivered to the Prime Minister, the coalition calls for carbon pricing to be rolled out across the UK economy to help tackle climate change – a move which could mean everything from gas heating to red meat becoming more expensive.

Carbon pricing is a way of charging polluters for their damage to the environment. Usually it means polluters, like power stations, oil companies, or even farmers, would pay a set price for every tonne of carbon they are responsible for emitting.