A report released 09/2014 by The Global Commission on Climate and the Economy -a group of former senior government officials advised by some of the world’s leading economists- found that “an ambitious series of measures to limit emissions would cost $4 trillion or so over the next 15 years, an increase of roughly 5 percent over the amount that would likely be spent anyway on new power plants, transit systems and other infrastructure.”

Though comprehensive and straightforward, the report does not include a blueprint to simultaneously solve the global water crisis and the gap in the distribution of wealth and income. Plan A does.