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Abstract
Climate change is undoubtedly an issue involving many spheres having a dire impact upon the future. All these have given rise to much quoted environmental law principles and balancing the interest and liability of the first and the third world. We do not talk about climate change victims so much as we do about climate change migrants. Victims of climate change have seldom been seen as a subject of victimology rather than a subject of refugee or migrant studies, or the concepts of beneficiaries of compensation. But if one takes a deeper view, one shall find that the notion of virtualization due to climate change itself is a diverse and wide concept, due to its distinctiveness. People are generally victims of fellow human beings- perpetrators of crimes. But people can also suffer from climate change when nature is changed by the activities of human beings. Various activities of humans such as excessive industrial waste, spills, emissions etc. are taking environmental pollution to such an extent that at present climate change has become causal factor to human sufferings. We need to dissect the concept of virtualization and scrutinize its dimensions in the context of climate change. This paper would discuss the notion of climate change virtualization along with its various dimensions, the linkage between climate justice and climate change victims, the efficacy of compensation scheme for restorative justice, state obligation under national and international legal regime
