Agence France-Presse: The governments decision to lower its carbon emissions target immediately came under widespread criticism from international negotiators at U.N. climate talks in Poland, with one environmental group calling it a bad joke. The United Nations, European Union and the worlds small island states reacted with disappointment to Fridays announcement by Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara in Tokyo, while green nongovernmental groups voiced fury. Today, Japan slashed its 2020 emission reduction...