Stringent policies that significantly increase the cost of greenhouse gas emissions, such as CO2, are increasingly necessary for mitigating climate change. Yet while richer individuals in society generate the most CO2 emissions, and thus will face the largest cost burden, they also tend to be more supportive of stringent environmental policies. This paper argues that these opposite trends occur due to variation in individuals' beliefs about the distribution of CO2 emissions and the size of their own emissions relative to others within their country. Utilising survey experiments in Germany, we examine how information on the distribution of CO2 emissions by income groups affect environmental policy preferencess. Specifically, we examine how information about individuals' household emissions relative to the average level of emissions and/or the top and bottom 20% of emissions in the country affect individuals' support for increasing the cost of emissions through carbon pricing. In doing so, we are able to better understand how the emerging distributional costs of tackling climate change affect public support and political feasibility.