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This guide from RMI explains Advance Market Commitments (AMCs) as financial mechanisms used to stimulate the development and deployment of new technologies by guaranteeing a future market. By providing a promise from governments or private entities to purchase a specific amount of a product once available, AMCs reduce risk for investors and developers, particularly in sectors like aviation, buildings, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide removal.

This research paper by RMI proposes the establishment of a government-led Advance Market Commitment (AMC) to scale carbon removal technologies. It argues that current voluntary and compliance markets are insufficient to meet the gigaton-scale requirements needed by midcentury and provides a framework for governments to coordinate demand, harmonize standards, and catalyze private investment to bridge the funding and deployment gap.

This report by the NewClimate Institute examines methods to strengthen the role of sustainable development and safeguarding provisions within the design of mechanisms under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, drawing on experiences from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), voluntary markets, and non-UNFCCC multilateral institutions.

This report outlines a project that analyzed Article 6 of the Paris Agreement to inform its rulebook and assessed the readiness of Ukraine, Vietnam, and Ethiopia to engage with market mechanisms based on their history of carbon market collaboration with Germany.

This commentary discusses the role of international market mechanisms in facilitating greenhouse gas emission reductions and their potential to influence future international climate agreements and development processes, with a specific focus on the needs of Canada.

This 1989 research paper by Amory B. Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute argues for the creation of markets in resource efficiency to combat the economic tendency to treat natural resource depletion and pollution as free goods. Lovins proposes treating saved resources—such as 'negawatts' of electricity—as commodities that can be traded, auctioned, and hedged, providing a market-based alternative to regulatory mandates. He asserts that efficient technology is generally cheaper than producing new resources, creating a significant profit opportunity for those who sell efficiency rather than the resource itself.