Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0680-9, published online 2 January 2020.

In the version of this Editorial originally published, the text ‘25th Congress of Parties (COP25)’ was incorrect; it should have read ‘25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’. The text ‘The Convention on Biological Diversity will meet’ was also incorrect; it should have read ‘The parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity will meet’. This has now been corrected.