I understand your point, but we have to keep in mind that many american and european companies have their factories and produce in China, Bangladesh, India or other southeast asian / asian countries we also have to look at the per capita figure to see which countries pollute the most. I think consumerism is what's causing this, and I think Europe is doing well in many ways, but in others, it's simply moving its problems elsewhere
Percent of primary energy consumption from renewables has increased by 11ish points, while the world as a whole has by 6. Renewables are a third of electricity and China generates 3x more hydro than the next country (points if you know what #2 is). The problem is that the nonrenewable sector is still growing at a large rate and the sheer scale of the country means this growth is stupendous.
Europe could reduce their emissions to zero and it just doesn't matter at all.
The EU is actually fairly irrelevant these days, producing just 6.4% of emissions, compared to 12% for the US, and 34% from China.