In the Correspondence 'Greenhouse gas emissions from synthetic natural gas production' (Nature Clim. Change 6, 220–221; 2016), the Acknowledgements section should have read: 'The authors acknowledge support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (grant no. 51306185), the 'Strategic Priority Research Program — Climate Change: Carbon Budget and Related Issues' of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant no. XDA05010102), and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS.' This was corrected online on 11 March 2016.