Climate change has become a major issue all over the world in recent years because it affects our lives and safety directly. The main purpose of this study is to explore the cognition and the attitude of the climate change of the elementary school teachers in New Taipei City. A total of 600 copies of the self-designed “questionnaire of the cognition and attitude of the climate change of the elementary school teachers in New Taipei City.” were sent out to teachers that were selected by the method of “stratified random sampling”, therefore, the difference in school size and location can be included in the population. There were 453 effective samples, the response rate was 75.5%. The statistic analysis methods were descriptive statistics, T-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe’s method comparison and Pearson’s related analysis. The main results of the study were shown as follows: 1. The correct rate of overall cognition about climate change for the elementary school teacher in New Taipei City was 51.8% , this was in the medium level. In addition, the attitude about climate change for them was positive. However, there was no significant difference in the cognition and attitude about climate change for the teachers. 2. There was a significant difference between different gender, positions, and professional backgrounds of the New Taipei City’s elementary school teachers in their cognition of climate change. 3. There was a significant difference between various TV programs, reads and website browsed experience of the New Taipei City’s elementary school teachers in their cognition of climate change. 4. There was a significant difference among different teacher programs, reads and website browsed experience of the New Taipei City’s elementary school teachers in their attitude of climate change. 5. The most sources of climate change knowledge comes from the following order: (1) television news and radio, (2) internet, (3) reading materials and newspapers, (4) school curricula and textbooks, (5) colleagues and friends.