UN urges huge increase in green energy to avert climate disaster

David Cameron's commitment to the green agenda will come under the fiercest scrutiny yet this week when top climate-change experts will warn that only greater use of renewable energy – including windfarms – can prevent a global catastrophe.

Renewables industry welcomes reduced subsidies for onshore windfarms

Reduced subsidies for onshore windfarms and solar power announced on Wednesday are "good news", according to a leading renewable energy trade body, because it shows the costs of the technologies are coming down.

Large onshore windfarm approved for Lincolnshire

Ed Davey, the energy and climate change secretary, has given the green light to a huge windfarm right next door to the constituency of his turbine-phobic colleague, John Hayes.