(Reuters) -Australia's Macquarie Group said on Tuesday it would leave a global banking sector climate coalition, joining a host of North American banks that have quit the alliance since Donald Trump returned as U.S. President in early November. The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) is a UN-sponsored initiative set up by former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney and launched in 2021 to encourage financial institutions to limit the effects of climate change and push toward achieving net-zero emissions. However, Trump's presidential victory and his subsequent decisions to pull out from the Paris Agreement and the UN Green Climate Fund have triggered an exodus from the NZBA, which currently has 134 members in 44 countries, as per its website.