Bad news this morning on the world’s attempts to curb carbon emissions. Two new reports, one from the UN Environmental Programme ahead of Cancun, and one from WWF and EcoFys on European government policy, paint similarly gloomy pictures.

The UN report focuses on the “carbon gap”, between the level of CO2 likely to be produced globally if climate policies stay the same and the level needed to meet the UN’s target of limiting global warming to 2°C.