Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sánchez meet with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in New York

Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sánchez meet with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in New York

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sat down with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in New York on Monday, after Johnson flew to the city for the UN General Assembly. Bezos posted a photo of the meeting on his account. His girlfriend Lauren Sanchez also attended. Bezos said he and Johnson discussed climate change. "Good exchange of ideas on climate change with a lot of passion around preserving and restoring the natural world," Bezos said on Instagram. A spokesperson for the prime minister's office at Number 10 Downing Street also said the pair discussed climate change, as well as taxation. They talked about the upcoming COP26 summit — the United Nations Climate Change Conference due to be held in Glasgow, UK next month — and "agreed that there was an urgent need to mobilise more public and private money to help developing countries protect biodiversity, including through the LEAF Coalition," the spokesperson said. The LEAF Coalition is a charity fund aimed at protecting tropical forests. "The Prime Minister and Mr Bezos agreed to work together to see what more could be done in the run up to and at COP26," the spokesperson said. Bezos and Johnson met the same day to conservation