Correction to: Communications Earth & Environment https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00029-y, published online 16 October 2020.

The original version of this Review contained errors in which the units of EJ/y were incorrectly labelled as TJ/y; the errors occurred in Fig 1b (title and caption), Fig. 3a, b (X-axis), Fig. 4 (Y-axis for row 1; X-axis for column 2 and caption), Table 2 (column 1, row 3), Supplementary Table 1 (column 5 heading and caption) and Supplementary Table 2 (column 3 heading and caption).

These errors have been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Review and the HTML has been updated to include a corrected version of the Supplementary information, which is additionally attached to this Correction.