In the fifth episode of their COP26 coverage, the Eurasian Climate Brief team interview Gilles Dufrasne, of Carbon Market Watch. Dufrasne explains what carbon offsetting is and highlights some of the pitfalls of the carbon market system.

Taken from Raz Mesinai's Sonic Hauntology: Subterranean Internationale, forthcoming from The Battleground Sounds.

Today, the Eurasian Climate Brief met with activists protesting COP26 in Glasgow. The ECB interviews 25-year-old Arshak Makychian from Fridays for Future Russia. Makychian staged a strike for the climate every Friday for more than 110 weeks. The team also interviews Evgeny Simonov from Rivers Without Boundaries. Simonov is in Glasgow protesting against the development of hydropower dams in Russia.

In this third COP26 episode, the ECB team talk to UN forestry expert, Paola Deda, about the state of forests in the region, after more than 100 countries - many of them Eurasian - committed to end and reverse deforestation by 2030 on Tuesday.

The Eurasian Climate Brief is a new podcast dedicated to climate news in the region stretching from Eastern Europe and Russia down to Caucasia and Central Asia. Join us in Glasgow for our special COP26 series. The talks have been billed as the last-chance summit to prevent catastrophic climate change.

In this episode, we focus on Russia's reliance on coal, less than a day after G20 countries failed to reach an agreement to phase out the fuel.

European airport sounds, mix recorded before the Coronavirus pandemic. Taken from Raz Mesinai's Sonic Hauntology: Subterranean Internationale, forthcoming from The Battleground Sounds.

In the second part of their interview, Battleground editor Joel Schalit talks to Charlie Bertsch about the diversity politics of his new book, Listening for the Future: Popular Music for Europe (Battleground Books) and how we fetishize music made by foreigners.

In the first episode of Left To Burn, Battleground editors John Foster and Josh White discuss the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, and UK Labour's ongoing efforts to refashion itself a centre-right party.

Women refugees protest. Brussels, March 2016. Recorded to iPhone by Joel Schalit.