Pada pertengahan tahun 2021, Cina telah menjalankan perdagangan emisi karbon perdananya secara nasional. Tepat pada 16 Juli 2021, bursa lokal di Cina melakukan perdagangan dengan volume karbon sebanyak 4.1 juta ton CO2 (karbon dioksida) atau setara dengan 210 juta yuan (32 juta dollar AS).

The COFR crude oil contract closed last week's fluctuations with a slight increase of 0.83% to Rp 1,045,600 per barrel. The narrow movement of crude oil last week occurred on the back of a tug of war of positive and negative sentiment absorbed by the market which is very sensitive to the stability of global oil supply and demand levels.

Karbon merupakan unsur kimia yang mempunyai simbol C dan nomor atom 6 pada tabel periodik. Unsur ini termasuk dalam golongan non-logam dan memiliki valensi 4, yang berarti ada 4 elektron yang membentuk ikatan kovalen.

Sebelum masuk membahas lebih dalam, perlu diluruskan terlebih dahulu bahwa karbon yang dimaksud disini bukanlah karbon yang dihasilkan dari arang yang biasa dijadikan sebagai bahan bakar, akan tetapi karbon dari gas polusi yang dapat menyebabkan pemanasan global dan perubahan iklim. Keadaan dunia saat ini cukup mengerikan dengan cuaca ekstrem dan bencana alam sudah menjadi hal yang umum akibat pemanasan global. Sesungguhnya, hal ini merupakan dampak dari kegiatan manusia dan kita harus bertanggung jawab, salah satunya dengan mengambil tindakan atas pelepasan gas rumah kaca (GRK) ke atmosfer.

Here is our monthly recap on GOFX transactions and the global market sentiment for July 2021.

The price of tin traded on ICDX was observed to show a bullish trend throughout 2021, where the price of tin which was around $21,000 at the beginning of the year continued to climb up to penetrate the level above $35,000 at the close of the 1st semester of 2021. In terms of volume, tin exports carried out through ICDX also show positive performance. The total export volume in the first semester of this year reached 12,866.93 metric tons, an increase of 202 percent compared to the second semester of last year.

The COFR crude oil contract closed last week's fluctuations with a slight increase of 0.83% to Rp 1,045,600 per barrel. The narrow movement of crude oil last week occurred on the back of a tug of war of positive and negative sentiment absorbed by the market which is very sensitive to the stability of global oil supply and demand levels.

The crude palm oil (CPO) contract closed last week with a weekly appreciation of 2.28% to the level of Rp 14,145,- per kg. The sentiment around the CPO market, which tends to be responded negatively by the market, has in fact provided its own positive catalyst for prices. The political turmoil from the main producing country Malaysia, as well as the chaos related to COVID that hit the two main CPO producing countries, namely Indonesia and Malaysia, are the headlines that need to be underlined.