China is aiming for comprehensive, systemic reforms in all sectors and calling for more cooperation on and investment in green transformation to fulfill its pledge to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, officials said at a forum on carbon neutrality held in Shanghai on Thursday.

With only 30 years between the two goals, "we will pursue a sustained, rapid decline in carbon emissions as quickly as possible after having a carbon dioxide emissions peak by 2030, as we"re pressed for time", said Li Gao, director-general of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment"s Department of Climate Change, at the Carbon Neutrality Forum.

The forum was co-organized by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.