The Rio Conventions Pavilion was launched at the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 10) (18-29 October, 2010) in Nagoya, Japan, convened again in ‘virtual format’ at the UNFCCC COP 16/CMP 6 in Cancun, Mexico (29 November – 10 December, 2010), and held on-site events during the UNCCD COP10 in Changwon, Republic of Korea (10-21 October, 2011).