Renewable energy technologies are innovative and promising technologies to achieve low carbon development both in developed and developing countries in Asia. Various types of renewables such as solar, wind power and biomass energy are being or will be disseminated in Asian countries through policy arrangement such as regulatory schemes, target setting and economic incentives including Feed-in-Tariff. The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), and Hyogo Prefecture organised a “Symposium on Low Carbon Society in Asia through Dissemination of Renewable Energy Technology” in Kobe, Japan in order to provide the latest information on renewable energy technologies that have been introduced in Japan and Asian developing countries, to the public; and to exchange views among participants on gaps, lessons and solutions to achieve low carbon societies.