Fig 1.
Geographic neighborhood types.
Table 1.
Summary of fossil fuel properties.
Fig 2.
Carbon emission intensity of 26 provinces in China, 2016–2021.
Table 2.
Green technology innovation index system.
Table 3.
Ambient air pollutant concentration standards (in China).
Table 4.
Descriptive statistics for all variables.
Fig 3.
Sub-area Moran’s Index under Geographic Distance (left) / Neighborhood (right) Matrix.
Table 5.
Results of spatial autocorrelation tests.
Table 6.
Results of spatial measurement model tests.
Table 7.
Results of the regression analysis of the mediation effect.
Table 8.
Results of the heterogeneity test based on the degree of economic development.