2021 COAL PRIZE

In 2021, the COAL Prize is dedicated to the forest. In the space of a few decades, the forest has become the symbol and the point of convergence of the covetousness, environmental disasters and struggles that are shaking the contemporary world in crisis. Thirteen million hectares of forest disappear every year, under the pressure of agriculture, overgrazing, timber exploitation and urbanisation; whole sections of the forests of Amazonia, Australia and sub-Saharan Africa are burning, while others are dying on the ground as a result of global warming, thus depriving wildlife of its natural habitats. All over the world, people are fighting to defend these reserves of life and culture and to make them the models for new worlds to be built.