The San Francesco Cantico delle Creature International Prize for the Environment was promoted by the Franciscan Center for Environmental Studies and by the General Custody of the Sacred Convent of San Francesco in Assisi, with the participation of ENEL SpA, in the years between 1990 and 1993 with the aim of recalling world public opinion on the great environmental problems of our time and of reporting and rewarding the actions and studies that have made a qualified contribution to their solution.The winners, three each year, were given the present sculpture by Mario Ceroli, created by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato