Paris 2024 will formally sign the "Race to Zero" tomorrow at the conference in Glasgow.

"This is a race we have to win," Grenon said.

"We will be joining the Race to Zero, we will be totally committing to reduce our emissions by 50 per cent in 2024, and completely offset our emissions and actually go beyond thus meeting the objectives of the IOC for 2030 but doing it in 2024," she added.

"This is where athletes inspire us. We all have to become "Climate Athletes" - we have the opportunity to do things differently to be able to go beyond what was done before."

Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic organisers claim they are already following the directives of the 2015 Paris Accord on Climate Change and Sustainability.

"There are many challenges to deal with because of the size of the event," said Grenon.

"We are saying mobilisation is important at a personal level, a national and international level."

On the same platform, double Olympic sailing champion Hannah Mills called for more athletes to speak out to influence Governments on climate change.

"I am really passionate about using my voice but also engaging and encouraging other athletes to use their voice to lend it to massive causes and challenges that we are trying to solve globally," Mills said.

"I got interested in sustainability in a strong way - the Rio 2016 Olympic cycle, just from what I witnessed, sailing in all parts of the world, particularly with plastic pollution, that was my gateway into understanding why it was there, where it had come from, how it is having a massive impact."

Mills was a participant in an athletes video on climate change launched this week in Glasgow to coincide with the conference.

"We did our bit this summer in Tokyo under immense pressure and adversity. Tokyo delivered the Games which no one thought were even going to happen," Mills told COP26 delegates.

"Now we are looking to you. This is your chance to be ambitious to use some of the qualities we have as athletes, determination, resilience, ambition, courage to lead us to deliver what we are hoping for and expect over the next two weeks."

Mills also suggested that attitudes to the environment should be taken into account when selecting sponsors.

"I don’t think it is talked about enough, sponsorship in sport, who events or athletes choose to partner with in terms of the messages they are trying to send," Mills said. "That is really important.

"We do have global audiences, we do have young people influenced by athletes and sporting events, the messages we want to be sending to them are brands or corporations that are trying to do the right thing. 

"Should there be a global framework around criteria for sports sponsorship?" Mills asked.