France, Jan. 9 -- On Wednesday, PresidentDonald Trump ordered the withdrawal of the US from 66 international organisations- roughly half of them linked to the UN.

Masson-Delmotte, former chair of Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and now a climatologist at France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission,accuses the White House of "sabotage" aimed at destroying scientific knowledge and keeping it from the American people.

RFI: How do you interpret this latest US attack on global climate diplomacy?

Valerie Masson-Delmotte:Under the Trump administration, the United States is breaking away from multilateralism on climate and biodiversity. It's also breaking away from objective, rigorous and ...