Ravi Suri – global head of sustainable finance and impact investing at KPMG – once again joins the Infra Dig podcast for another Masterclass episode, this one focused on the role that project finance plays in achieving peace and climate change goals.

IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville talks to Ravi about the wide-ranging impact of a financing mechanism designed to support investments into infrastructure and energy.

This latest episode runs for about 26 minutes and gives the listener an educational tour of the impact that project finance has across the globe in key sectors.

This latest episode can be accessed on Spotify (embedded above) as well as through Apple Podcasts and on the Amazon service. It is also hosted across a slew of other platforms and is open access on all of them.

Ravi (pictured right) takes the listener through a process by which you achieve peace through the deployment of project finance as a financing mechanism to deliver essential infrastructure and energy followed by how to maintain stability through providing citizens with reliable infra.

While admitting that poor infrastructure is not the root cause of all civil infractions, Ravi points to the societal stability that can be achieved through “an environment where growth takes place because capital flows”.

Ravi says: “We must proactively go into countries, build public-private partnerships, bring in concessional capital, bring in development finance, mitigate the risk directly and prevent getting into that situation.

“Now, if you're not able to do that and you get into a situation where there is war, strife and riots, and the country is destroyed or has broken infrastructure – then you build it back, and you build it back through the same concept of PPPs, correct risk mitigation and ensure that the living conditions of people in these countries are ameliorated. That will then make them happy and give them lasting peace.

“I think project finance is a very big catalyst for this because governments in these countries don’t have sufficient funds.”

Tune into this latest episode to hear more about the role being played by PF in the prevention of national instability and build-back after conflict, as well as its contribution in the battle against climate change.