Correction to: Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2018) 25:29678–29698

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-2968-0

The modified title is presented in this paper.

In the abstract (line 4-5) was changed to "This research aims at investigating into the effect of innovation on CO2 emissions in 28 OECD countries at an individual level for the recent period 1990 to 2014."