Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01052-3, published online 6 May 2021.

In the version of this Research Highlight originally published, in the first sentence of the second paragraph, the text “...carbon tariffs from non-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...” was incorrect, and should have read ‘...carbon tariffs on imports from non-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...’. This has now been corrected in the online versions of the Research Highlight.