Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0757-z, published online 12 December 2018.

In this Letter, the PANGAEA repository was referred to incorrectly in the ‘Code availability’ and ‘Data availability’ sections of the Methods: the link should be https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.893761 instead of https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.877266. In addition, the sentence, “However, the more commonly used system 2 (75 kg ha−1 yr−1) generates roughly the same benefits as system 1…” should read, “However, the more commonly used system 2 (75 kg ha−1 yr−1) generates roughly the same benefits as sugarcane ethanol…” These errors have been corrected in the online versions of the Letter.