This is not true at all, or at least it's only true from a narrow US view of the world :

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-31/obama-step-forward-...

And let's not get any illusions. One of the main real changes in the world that make this possible is outsourcing of production to China, where instead of a mix of oil, nuclear and coal, goods will be produced with nearly exclusively coal. Obama is not an idiot and knows this.

His voters seemingly are not so aware.

So what it should really say is something along the lines of "in an attempt to improve earbon emission numbers in the US, the EPA doubles worldwide carbon emissions, in cooperation with it's European counterpart, moving the emissions where they are not counted on his report card".