“Sustainable Asia 2005 and Beyond – In Pursuit of Innovative Policies” is the first attempt of IGES to consolidate the primary outcomes of its policy research within a broad context of sustainable development in Asia. It aims to elucidate underlying challenges confronted by the region and to provide a framework of policy and strategic options to deal with them. Certainly issues associated with sustainable development in Asia are diverse and it is not possible to examine all their aspects. However, we have tried to capture the essential issues to promote sustainable development by focusing on several specific sectors. This publication is not intended to be provocative but efforts have been made to be frank with difficult issues.