Tax corporate polluters and rich to help tackle climate crisis, Jeremy Hunt told

Jeremy Hunt is weighing up cutting inheritance tax in his autumn statement on Wednesday. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Shutterstock

Jeremy Hunt has been warned that combating the climate emergency will require higher taxes on wealth and big corporate polluters at the autumn statement rather than a package of giveaways for the rich.

In the run-up to the chancellor’s speech to the Commons on Wednesday, a group of 19 leading charities and campaigners – including Greenpeace, Christian Aid and Patriotic Millionaires UK – said billions of pounds could be raised to help finance decarbonisation.