2.1. Streamline mining chaos and reduce the number of licenses issued, by requiring every mine to report on its operational accountability and economic returns at the national level.

2.2. To reduce land degradation by strengthening the integrated protection of water, pastureland, and traditional nomadic landscapes, Parties should recognize and reflect in decisions, within the framework of COP17, the need to: (1) protect springs, seeps, river sources, wells, and other water resources; (2) coordinate the use of water resources with pastureland use; (3) protect landscapes containing traditional migration routes and ecosystem corridors; and (4) prevent the unjustified reclassification of pastureland.

2.3. Parties should adopt and implement, through national and regional policy, the principle of a “Nomadic Red Line for Sustainable Pastoral Rights.” The following should be preserved as protected zones of special ecological and traditional-use significance: (1) water sources; (2) springs and seeps; (3) wells; (4) winter, spring, summer, and autumn camps; (5) traditional migration routes; (6) sacred mountains and waters; and (7) Parties should recognize and include in the decision the pastoralists' "Nomadic Red Line for Sustainable Pastoral Rights" initiative, which regulates mining, industrial, and infrastructure development in ecologically sensitive grazing areas based on ecosystem carrying capacity and socio-environmental impact assessments;

2.4. To strengthen responsible investment and corporate accountability, Parties should recognize and reflect in decisions the need to establish and implement a legal framework for assessing cumulative impacts of large development projects and climate change impacts.

2.5. Parties should recognize and reflect in decisions the need for development project proponents to: (1) prevent land degradation; (2) restore degraded land; (3) introduce only dryland-appropriate technology; (4) fairly compensate harm caused to local residents; and (5) adopt the principle of long-term ecological responsibility and insurance. (6) COP17 should resolve, as a binding decision, to enforce the Convention’s recommendation that no state or public funds be invested in any project with adverse impacts on the Gobi Desert.

2.6. Establish legal regulations that require the assessment of cumulative, indirect and long-term impacts at the regional level, not limited to the direct impacts of the project, when assessing the environmental, social and human rights risks of large development projects.

2.7. Recognize the need to strengthen science-policy coherence and monitoring systems in reducing land degradation and improving governance. In particular, Parties should recognize and reflect in decisions the need to build, within PRAIS reporting and national monitoring systems, a participatory assessment system that integrates satellite data, rangeland quality assessment, soil organic carbon, vegetation cover change, and herders’ traditional knowledge

2.8. Enforcing the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s prohibition of extractive activities in protected zones of the Gobi Desert, and implementing its "Mining in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas: Guidelines for Environmental Planning and Management" (2003) guidance and related resolutions into Mongolia's national PRAIS reporting system;