But mostly the measures target forms of pollution other than carbon.
While a third resolution would ideally include additional measures targeting Iranian entities and officials, there are also non-punitive measures that would be equally significant.
Measures targeting high earners included cutting the amount they can put into their pension pot tax-free from £50,000 to £40,000, from 2014, raising £1bn.
Measures targeted at an army of overseas sellers using Amazon and eBay to evade VAT were at the heart of a £12bn tax clampdown announced by the chancellor.
"So our measures target legal aid at the people who will need legal support most, and at the most serious cases.
While nudges have proven to be of interest to many, and effective in places, critics have argued that many of these measures, especially measures targeting energy efficiency, are unlikely to be very effective because of so-called rebound effects.
The European embargo is due to coincide with US measures targeting the financing of the Iranian oil trade, effective in June – an attempt forced through by a combative Congress in December to strangle the Iranian economy.
The disclosure of the 2014 report – which suggests a series of potential punitive measures targeting extremist settlers and settlement products – comes days after Israeli elections which saw Netanyahu emerge as the decisive victor.
