Sunday Pick: Tech Solutions (#3): How one of China’s biggest tech companies is tackling carbon removal (with Xu Hao)

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🗓️ 30 November 2025

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Tencent is one of China’s biggest tech companies, running the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat and the world’s largest video game vendor. Now, it’s also an up-and-coming force in the field of carbon removal. Xu Hao, the vice president of Sustainable Social Value at Tencent, oversees two of those initiatives: the Carbon Neutrality Lab and CarbonX. He sits down with Sherrell Dorsey, host of the “TED Tech” podcast, to talk about how megacorporation can help advance the climate movement. He also explores the current state of carbon removal technology and how Tencent’s video games are becoming an unlikely source of climate education for hundreds of thousands of people.

This is episode three of a four-part series airing this month on TED Tech, where host and climate tech journalist Sherrell Dorsey speaks with climate leaders on the technology sparking a greener, more equitable future.

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0:00.0	Happy Sunday TED Talks Daily listeners. I'm Elise Hu, and today we have a special
0:11.2	episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective handpicked by us for you.
0:16.0	This time it's an episode from the TED Tech mini series on how technology can help to generate
0:20.8	a greener and more
0:21.7	equitable future. Have you ever wondered what video games and climate tech have in common?
0:27.3	Well, in today's episode, host Shirel Dorsey sits down with Shu Hao, who runs sustainability
0:32.5	initiatives at Tencent. Tencent is one of China's largest technological companies. It's behind the popular
0:38.4	Chinese messaging app, WeChat, the world's largest video game vendor, and is now an up-and-coming
0:44.3	force in carbon removal. They discussed the role mega corporations can play in the climate movement,
0:50.5	where carbon technology currently is, and how Tencent's video games are an unlikely
0:54.8	and exciting source of climate education for hundreds of thousands.
1:00.2	TED Tech is a show that features talks and conversations that explore the many ways in which
1:04.2	technology impacts society.
1:06.4	If you want to hear more insights like this, listen to TED Tech wherever you get your podcasts,
1:10.4	and learn about
1:11.4	the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.ted.com. Now on to the episode.
1:17.7	Welcome to TEDTech, a podcast from TED.
1:30.5	I'm your host, Shirel Dorsey.
1:32.9	Today, we're continuing our special mini-series about climate solutions
1:37.1	and the technology that can lead us into a greener, more equitable future.
1:43.0	Across four episodes, we're bringing you conversations from Ted's Countdown Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya,
1:50.4	where some of the world's greatest visionaries shared cutting-edge solutions to the ongoing climate crisis.
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