Deutsche Welle: Ahead of the Bali conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel Saturday, Dec. 1, urged the EU and G8 industrial nations to live up to promises on climate change. Her own country is ready to set an example, she said. The EU and the G8 summit in Germany earlier this year "took international decisions to do more for climate protection," the chancellor said in her weekly podcast. "In particular we need a successor agreement to the Kyoto protocol that expires in …