Correction to: Nature Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0563-0, published online 8 June 2020.

In the version of this Comment originally published, in the last sentence of the penultimate paragraph, the citation of reference 19 was incorrect and should have been a citation of reference 8.

The sentence ‘Some investments may indeed qualify both on environmental and health criteria: for example, renewable energy technologies yield a double environmental and health benefit, with the potential to prevent about 430,000 premature deaths annually in the EU from air pollution attributable to burning fossil fuels19.’ has been changed to:

‘Some investments may indeed qualify both on environmental and health criteria: for example, renewable energy technologies yield a double environmental and health benefit, with the potential to prevent about 430,000 premature deaths annually in the EU from air pollution attributable to burning fossil fuels8.’

This has now been corrected.