<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/archiving/1.2/JATS-archivearticle1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.2" article-type="correction" xml:lang="en"><?properties open_access?><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">44183</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>npj Ocean Sustainability</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">npj Ocean Sustain</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2731-426X</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Nature Publishing Group UK</publisher-name><publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">s44183-023-00037-3</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="manuscript">37</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1038/s44183-023-00037-3</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Author Correction</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="SubjectPath"><subject>/704/829</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="SubjectPath"><subject>/639/166</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="SubjectPath"><subject>/4014/4005</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="SubjectPath"><subject>/704/844/685</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="NatureArticleTypeID"><subject>author-correction</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Author Correction: Digital twins: a stepping stone to achieve ocean sustainability?</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes" id="Au1"><name><surname>Tzachor</surname><given-names>Asaf</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff2">2</xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="IDs44183023000373_cor1">a</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="Au2"><name><surname>Hendel</surname><given-names>Ofir</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff2">2</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="Au3"><name><surname>Richards</surname><given-names>Catherine E.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff3">3</xref></contrib><aff id="Aff1"><label>1</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="ROR">https://ror.org/013meh722</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.5335.0</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000 0001 2188 5934</institution-id><institution content-type="org-name">University of Cambridge, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk</institution></institution-wrap><addr-line content-type="city">Cambridge</addr-line><country country="GB">UK</country></aff><aff id="Aff2"><label>2</label><institution-wrap><institution-id 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In our opinion, one notable and prospective project, entitled the European Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO), stands out as a fully-fledged and operational DT. Insufficiently funded, the European DTO is also, naturally, a Euro-centric endeavor, with scientific and technical development budgets secured in Horizon Europe funding mechanisms limiting its transformative potential (see Box 1).</p><p id="Par4">Original: However, despite the increasing and transdisciplinary potential of DTs, they have received little attention in scientific and technological discussions for ocean sustainability, and accordingly, their potential has remained underutilized, with just one, notable and prospective project entitled the European Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO). Insufficiently funded, the European DTO is also, naturally, a Euro-centric endeavor, with scientific and technical development budgets secured in Horizon Europe funding mechanisms limiting its transformative potential (see Box 1).</p><p id="Par5">This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the article.</p></body></article>