Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0577-1, published online 10 October 2018.
In this Letter, referring to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union by 2030, the statement “About 75% of this reduction is expected to come from emission reductions and the remaining 25% from land use, land-use change and forestry” that cited ref. 7 of the original Letter (ref. 1 below) was incorrect. In fact, the 25% value in ref. 1 refers to global reductions, not those in the European Union. The correct value for the European Union is 1% (ref. 1), and the text has been corrected accordingly ('75%' has been changed to '99%' as well). We thank G. Grassi for identifying the error. Additionally, there were two other minor errors. First, in the sentence “The carbon-sink-maximizing portfolio has a small negative effect on annual precipitation (−2 mm) and no effect on air temperature (Table 1)” the word ‘precipitation’ was omitted. Second, Denmark was accidentally deleted during the conversion of Fig. 1. These errors have been corrected online.
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Grassi, G. et al. The key role of forests in meeting climate targets requires science for credible mitigation. Nat. Clim. Chang. 7, 220–226 (2017).
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Luyssaert, S., Marie, G., Valade, A. et al. Author Correction: Trade-offs in using European forests to meet climate objectives. Nature 567, E13 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1023-8
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